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How the Arabian nights inspired the American dream, 1790-1935 / / Susan Nance



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Autore: Nance Susan Visualizza persona
Titolo: How the Arabian nights inspired the American dream, 1790-1935 / / Susan Nance Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4696-0578-3
0-8078-9405-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814351403321
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