LEADER 03856nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910451984703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-2321-7 010 $a0-8147-8951-X 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814789513 035 $a(CKB)2550000000103301 035 $a(EBL)866216 035 $a(OCoLC)794663357 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000676647 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11390015 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676647 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10683431 035 $a(PQKB)11048685 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326213 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866216 035 $a(OCoLC)794671672 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19816 035 $a(DE-B1597)548324 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814789513 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL866216 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10565443 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000103301 100 $a20111104d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAmerican arabesque$b[electronic resource] $eArabs, Islam, and the 19th-century imaginary /$fJacob Rama Berman 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 225 1 $aAmerica and the long 19th century 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8147-4518-0 311 $a0-8147-8950-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aAmerican Arabesque examines representations of Arabs, Islam and the Near East in nineteenth-century American culture, arguing that these representations play a significant role in the development of American national identity over the century, revealing largely unexplored exchanges between these two cultural traditions that will alter how we understand them today.Moving from the period of America?s engagement in the Barbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allan Poe, the book argues that not only were Arabs and Muslims prominently featured in nineteenth-century literature, but that the differences writers established between figures such as Moors, Bedouins, Turks and Orientals provide proof of the transnational scope of domestic racial politics. Drawing on both English and Arabic language sources, Berman contends that the fluidity and instability of the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, imaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship. 410 0$aAmerica and the long 19th century. 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 606 $aIslam in literature 606 $aArabs$xRace identity 606 $aNational characteristics, American$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aArabs in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 615 0$aIslam in literature. 615 0$aArabs$xRace identity. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American$xHistory 615 0$aArabs in literature. 676 $a810.9/3529927 700 $aBerman$b Jacob Rama$01036962 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451984703321 996 $aAmerican arabesque$92457610 997 $aUNINA