{"product_id":"american-arabesque-arabs-islam-and-the-19th-century-imaginary-9780814745182","title":"American Arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the 19th-Century Imaginary","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacob Rama Berman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814745182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerman, Jacob Rama:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJacob Rama Berman\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of English Literature and Comparative Literature at Louisiana State University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40183698194547,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":28.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_00d781d4-5e05-485b-b6a2-18f5c06807d4.jpg?v=1655558063","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/american-arabesque-arabs-islam-and-the-19th-century-imaginary-9780814745182","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}