How the Arabian nights inspired the American dream, 1790-1935 / / Susan Nance
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| Autore: |
Nance Susan
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| Titolo: |
How the Arabian nights inspired the American dream, 1790-1935 / / Susan Nance
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (359 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 909/.0974927 |
| Soggetto topico: | Orientalism - United States - History |
| Performing arts - Social aspects - United States - History | |
| Popular culture - United States - History | |
| Capitalism - Social aspects - United States - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | 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 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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, 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | How the Arabian nights inspired the American dream, 1790-1935 |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0578-3 |
| 0-8078-9405-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910814351403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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