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.


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