Jacob Rama Berman 
American Arabesque [EPUB ebook] 
Arabs and Islam in the Nineteenth Century Imaginary

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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.

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Jacob Rama Berman is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University.

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato EPUB ● ISBN 9780814723210 ● Tamaño de archivo 3.3 MB ● Editorial NYU Press ● País US ● Publicado 2012 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 5479803 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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