U.S. orientalisms : race, nation, and gender in literature, 1790-1890 / Malini Johar Schueller.
1998
PS157 .S38 1998 (Mapit)
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Title
U.S. orientalisms : race, nation, and gender in literature, 1790-1890 / Malini Johar Schueller.
ISBN
0472108859 (acid-free paper)
9780472108855 (acid-free paper)
9780472108855 (acid-free paper)
Imprint
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©1998.
Language
English
Description
xii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
PS157 .S38 1998
Dewey Decimal Classification
810.9/325/09034
Summary
"U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890 is the first extensive and politicized study of nineteenth-century American discourses that helped build an idea of nationhood with control over three "Orients": the "Barbary" Orient, the Orient of Egypt, and the Orient of India. Malini Johar Schueller persuasively argues that current notions about the East can be better understood as latter-day manifestations of the earlier U.S. visions of the Orient refracted variously through millennial fervor, racial-cultural difference, and ideas of westerly empire."--BOOK JACKET. "This book will be of interest to readers in American history, postcolonial studies, gender studies, and literary theory."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-242) and index.
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Table of Contents
Race(ing) to the Orient
Algerian slavery and the liberty vision : Royall Tyler, James Ellison, Susanna Rowson, Washington Irving, Peter Markoe
Missionary colonialism, Egyptology, racial borderlands, and the satiric impulse : M.M. Ballow, William Ware, John DeForest, Maria Susanna Cummins, David F. Dorr
Subversive orientalisms : Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Herman Melville
The culture of Asian orientalism : missionary writings, travel writings, popular poetry
"Mine Asia" : Emerson's erotics of oriental possession
Whitman, Columbus, and the Asian mother.
Algerian slavery and the liberty vision : Royall Tyler, James Ellison, Susanna Rowson, Washington Irving, Peter Markoe
Missionary colonialism, Egyptology, racial borderlands, and the satiric impulse : M.M. Ballow, William Ware, John DeForest, Maria Susanna Cummins, David F. Dorr
Subversive orientalisms : Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Herman Melville
The culture of Asian orientalism : missionary writings, travel writings, popular poetry
"Mine Asia" : Emerson's erotics of oriental possession
Whitman, Columbus, and the Asian mother.