American Arabesque - Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary

Informationen zum Autor Jacob Rama Berman is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Examines representations of Arabs! Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture

Product details

• Authors: Jacob Berman, Jacob Rama Berman, Jacob/ Leys Berman
• Assisted by: Colin Leys (Editor), Leo Panitch (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.06.2012
• EAN: 9780814745182
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-4518-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: America and the Long 19th Cent; America and the Long 19th Cent; America and the Long 19th Century
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education