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10%OFFScott Trafton - Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania - 9780822333623 - V9780822333623
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Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania

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Description for Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania Paperback. 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. Series: New Americanists. Num Pages: 376 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1F; 1HBE; 1KBB; GTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 508.
Egypt Land is the first comprehensive analysis of the connections between constructions of race and representations of ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century America. Scott Trafton argues that the American mania for Egypt was directly related to anxieties over race and race-based slavery. He shows how the fascination with ancient Egypt among both black and white Americans was manifest in a range of often contradictory ways. Both groups likened the power of the United States to that of the ancient Egyptian empire, yet both also identified with ancient Egypt’s victims. As the land which represented the origins of races and nations, the ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
New Americanists
Condition
New
Weight
508g
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822333623
SKU
V9780822333623
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About Scott Trafton
Scott Trafton is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Reviews for Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania
“Egypt Land is an exceptional interdisciplinary study of the centrality of Egyptomania to considerations of race and nation in nineteenth-century America.”—Robert S. Levine, author of Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity “A magnificent piece of scholarship, Egypt Land does justice to the complexity of the work of nation- and race-making as such work moved circularly along ... Read more

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