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Autore |
Nance Susan |
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Titolo |
How the Arabian nights inspired the American dream, 1790-1935 [[electronic resource] /] / Susan Nance |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-4696-0578-3 |
0-8078-9405-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (359 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Orientalism - United States - History |
Performing arts - Social aspects - United States - History |
Popular culture - United States - History |
Capitalism - Social aspects - United States - History |
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United States Civilization Arab influences |
Arab countries Foreign public opinion, American |
United States Civilization 1783-1865 |
United States Civilization 20th century |
United States Economic conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: Playing Eastern -- Capitalism and the Arabian nights, 1790-1892 -- Ex Oriente Lux : playing Eastern for a living, 1838-1875 -- Wise men of the East and the market for American fraternalism, 1850-1892 -- Arab athleticism and the exoticization of the American dream, 1870-1920 -- Making the familiar strange : the racial politics of Eastern exotic, 1893-1929 -- Eastern femininities for modern women, 1893-1930 -- Turbans and capitalism, 1893-1930 -- Sign of promise : African Americans and Eastern personae in the Great Depression. |
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Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the ""East""--witness the popularity of the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and acrobats, |
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the feats of turban-wearing vaudeville magicians, and even the antics of fez-topped Shriners. In this captivating volume, Susan Nance provides a social and cultural history of this highly popular genre of Easternized performance in America up to the Great Depression. According to Nance, these traditions reveal how a broad spectrum of Americans, including recent immigrants |
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