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American Arabesque: Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary by Jacob Rama Berman (Paperback, 2012)
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Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series American Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today. Moving from the period of America's engagement in the 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.Product Identifiers
PublisherNew York University Press
ISBN-139780814745182
eBay Product ID (ePID)114093327
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameAmerican Arabesque: Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary
Publication Year2012
SubjectAnthropology
TypeTextbook
AuthorJacob Rama Berman
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Weight431 g
Item Width152 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorJacob Rama Berman
Series TitleAmerica and the Long 19th Century
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