U.S. Orientalisms : race, nation, and gender in literature, 1790-1890
by
Schueller, Malini Johar, 1957-
Title
:
U.S. Orientalisms : race, nation, and gender in literature, 1790-1890
Author
:
Schueller, Malini Johar, 1957-
ISBN
:
9780472087747
Personal Author
:
Schueller, Malini Johar, 1957-
Edition
:
1st pbk. ed. 2001.
Publication Information
:
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2001, c1998.
Physical Description
:
xii, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
:
Race(ing) to the Orient -- Algerian slavery and the liberty vision : Royall Tyler, James Ellison, Susanna Rowson, Washington Irving, Peter Markoe -- Missionary colonialism, Egyptology, racial borderlands, and the satiric impulse : M.M. Ballou, William Ware, John DeForest, Maria Susanna Cummins, David F. Dorr -- Subversive orientalisms : Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Herman Melville -- The culture of Asian orientalism : missionary writings, travel writings, popular poetry -- "Mine Asia" : Emerson's erotics of oriental possession -- Whitman, Columbus, and the Asian mother.
Subject Term
:
American literature -- Oriental influences.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Race in literature.
Sex in literature.
Geographic Term
:
Asia -- In literature.
Africa, North -- In literature.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168015726421 | 810.32509034 S385U 2001 | 1 |