American Arabesque : Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary / Jacob Rama Berman.
Berman, Jacob Rama, author.
2012
PS217.A72 B47 2012
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Title American Arabesque : Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary / Jacob Rama Berman.
Author Berman, Jacob Rama, author.
ISBN 9780814789513
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814789506.001.0001
Published New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814789506.001.0001 doi
Call Number PS217.A72 B47 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.93529927
Summary 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.
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Series America and the Long 19th Century ; 11
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780814789506
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Barbarous Voice of Democracy
2. Pentimento Geographies
3. Poe's Taste for the Arabesque
4. American Moors and the Barbaresque
5. Arab Masquerade
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
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