ISBN:
0822333759
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0822333627
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9780822333753
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9780822333623
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xix, 348 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
New Americanists
Parallel Title:
Print version Egypt Land : Race and Nineteenth-century American Egyptomania
DDC:
303.48/273032/09034
Keywords:
Racism History 19th century
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Slavery
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Slavery
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United States Race relations 19th century
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History
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Egypt Study and teaching 19th century
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History
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Egypt Foreign public opinion, American 19th century
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History
Abstract:
Explores the relation between nineteenth-century American interest in ancient Egypt in architecture, literature, and science, and the ways Egypt was deployed by advocates for slavery and by African American writers
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Preface: ""An Inspired Frenzy or Madness""; Introduction: ""This Egypt of the West"": Making Race and Nation along the American Nile; Chapter One: ""A Veritable He-Nigger after All"": Egypt, Ethnology, and the Crises of History; Chapter Two: The Egyptian Moment: Racial Ruptures and the Archaeological Imaginary; Chapter Three: The Curse of the Mummy: Race, Reanimation, and the Egyptian Revival; Chapter Four: Undressing Cleopatra: Race, Sex, and Bodily Interiority in Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter Five: Egypt Land: Slavery, Uprising, and Signifying the DoubleNotes; Works Cited; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-338) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
