{"product_id":"american-arabesque-arabs-islam-and-the-19th-century-imaginary-paperback","title":"American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the 19th-Century Imaginary - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacob Rama Berman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart of the American Literatures Initiative Series \u003cbr\u003eAmerican 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\u003cbr\u003etoday. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving from the period of America's engagement in the\u003cbr\u003eBarbary Wars through the Holy Land travel mania in the years of Jacksonian expansion and into the writings of romantics such as Edgar Allen 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\u003cbr\u003eof the term Arab as it appears in captivity narratives, travel narratives, \u003cbr\u003eimaginative literature, and ethnic literature simultaneously instantiate and undermine definitions of the American nation and American citizenship.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 11, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45837595312325,"sku":"9780814745182","price":61.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/eqI7lKikjO9780814745182.webp?v=1771281813","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/american-arabesque-arabs-islam-and-the-19th-century-imaginary-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}