""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 "Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Scott Trafton is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
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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
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
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