Egypt Land - Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania

Informationen zum Autor Scott Trafton is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Klappentext Explores the relation between nineteenth-century American interest in ancient Egypt in architecture, literature, and science, and the ways Egypt was deployed by advocates for slavery and by African American writers. Zusammenfassung Explores the relation between nineteenth-century American interest in ancient Egypt in architecture! literature! and science! and the ways Egypt was deployed by advocates for slavery and by African American writers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations ix Acknowledgment xi Preface: “An Inspired Frenzy of Madness” xv Introduction: “This Egypt of the West”: Making Race and Nation along the American Nile 1 1. “A Veritable He-Nigger after All”: Egypt, Ethnology, and the Crises of History 41 2. The Egyptian Moment: Racial Ruptures and the Archaeological Imaginary 85 3. The Curse of the Mummy: Race, Reanimation, and the Egyptian Revival 121 4. Undressing Cleopatra: Race, Sex, and Bodily Interiority in Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania 165 5. Egypt Land: Slavery, Uprising, and Signifying the Double 222 Notes 263 Works Cited 315 Index 339

Product details

• Authors: Scott Trafton, Trafton, Scott Trafton
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2004
• EAN: 9780822333753
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3375-3
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 32 mm
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education