American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam and the 19th-Century Imaginary Contributor(s): Berman, Jacob Rama (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814789501 ISBN-13: 9780814789506 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | American - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Literary Criticism | American - General |
Dewey: 810.935 |
LCCN: 2011043495 |
Series: America and the Long 19th Century |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.19 lbs) 288 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allen Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship. |
Contributor Bio(s): Berman, Jacob Rama: - Jacob Rama Berman is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. |