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How the Arabian nights inspired the American dream, 1790-1935
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How the Arabian nights inspired the American dream, 1790-1935 / Susan Nance.
ISBN
9780807832745 (cloth : alk. paper)
080783274X (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
Physical Description
xi, 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 19, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-334) and index.
Contents
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.
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