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U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890
Malini Jo Schueller
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Description for U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890
Paperback. Uncovers the roots of Americans' construction of the "Orient" by examining the work of nineteenth-century authors Num Pages: 264 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 855.
U.S. Orientalisms 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.
This book begins with an examination of the literature of the "Barbary" Orient generated by the U.S. Algerian conflict in the late eighteenth ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ann Arbor, United States
ISBN
9780472087747
SKU
V9780472087747
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99-15
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