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

By: Berman, Jacob RamaContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: America and the long 19th centuryPublication details: New York : New York University Press, c2012Description: xvi, 269 p. : illISBN: 081478951X (electronic bk.); 9780814723210 (electronic bk.); 9780814789513 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/3529927 LOC classification: PS217.A72 | B47 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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