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Egypt Land
Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania
Taschenbuch von Scott Trafton
Sprache: Englisch

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""Egypt Land" is an exceptional interdisciplinary study of the centrality of Egyptomania to considerations of race and nation in nineteenth-century America."--Robert S. Levine, author of "Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity "
""Egypt Land" is an exceptional interdisciplinary study of the centrality of Egyptomania to considerations of race and nation in nineteenth-century America."--Robert S. Levine, author of "Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity "
Über den Autor

Scott Trafton is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Illustrations ix

Acknowledgment xi

Preface: “An Inspired Frenzy of Madness” xv

Introduction: “This Egypt of the West”: Making Race and Nation along the American Nile 1

1. “A Veritable He-Nigger after All”: Egypt, Ethnology, and the Crises of History 41

2. The Egyptian Moment: Racial Ruptures and the Archaeological Imaginary 85

3. The Curse of the Mummy: Race, Reanimation, and the Egyptian Revival 121

4. Undressing Cleopatra: Race, Sex, and Bodily Interiority in Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania 165

5. Egypt Land: Slavery, Uprising, and Signifying the Double 222

Notes 263

Works Cited 315

Index 339
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780822333623
ISBN-10: 0822333627
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Trafton, Scott
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 227 x 154 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Scott Trafton
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.11.2004
Gewicht: 0,508 kg
Artikel-ID: 108260896
Über den Autor

Scott Trafton is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
Illustrations ix

Acknowledgment xi

Preface: “An Inspired Frenzy of Madness” xv

Introduction: “This Egypt of the West”: Making Race and Nation along the American Nile 1

1. “A Veritable He-Nigger after All”: Egypt, Ethnology, and the Crises of History 41

2. The Egyptian Moment: Racial Ruptures and the Archaeological Imaginary 85

3. The Curse of the Mummy: Race, Reanimation, and the Egyptian Revival 121

4. Undressing Cleopatra: Race, Sex, and Bodily Interiority in Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania 165

5. Egypt Land: Slavery, Uprising, and Signifying the Double 222

Notes 263

Works Cited 315

Index 339
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780822333623
ISBN-10: 0822333627
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Trafton, Scott
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 227 x 154 x 22 mm
Von/Mit: Scott Trafton
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.11.2004
Gewicht: 0,508 kg
Artikel-ID: 108260896
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