1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458518103321

Autore

Hatcher Brian A (Brian Allison)

Titolo

Eclecticism and modern Hindu discourse [[electronic resource] /] / Brian A. Hatcher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Hong Kong, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

1-280-47166-2

0-19-534413-8

1-4237-6014-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (213 p.)

Disciplina

294.5/172

Soggetti

Hinduism - Doctrines

Hinduism - Relations

Syncretism (Religion) - India

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-194) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 ""Difference Relates"": Eclecticism Past and Present; 3 Swami in Wonderland: Vivekananda's Eclectic Hermeneutics; 4 What's the Connection?: India's Eclectic Heritage; 5 Varieties of Eclectic Experience: The Case of Colonial Bengal; 6 My Own Private Bungalow: The Dynamics of Eclectic Home-Building; 7 Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the classical roots and contemporary significance of eclecticism within modern Hindu discourse. It focuses on the thought of Swami Vivekananda as exemplary of the tone and character of modern Hindu eclecticism and then seeks to identify its historical Indian antecedents.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779154803321

Autore

Berman Jacob Rama

Titolo

American arabesque [[electronic resource] ] : Arabs, Islam, and the 19th-century imaginary / / Jacob Rama Berman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8147-2321-7

0-8147-8951-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

America and the long 19th century

Disciplina

810.9/3529927

Soggetti

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

National characteristics, American, in literature

Islam in literature

Arabs - Race identity

National characteristics, American - History - 19th century

Arabs in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Guest Figures -- The Barbarous Voice of Democracy -- Pentimento Geographies -- Poe's Arabesque -- American Moors and the Barbaresque -- Arab Masquerade : Mahjar Identity Politics and Trans-nationalism -- Afterword: Haunted Houses.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Allan 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.