U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890

by Malini Johar Schueller

Book Overview

U.S. Orientalisms is the first extensive and politicized study of nineteenth century American discourses that helped build an idea of nationhood with control over three "Orients" the "Barbary" Orient; the Orient of Egypt; and the Orient of India. Malini Johar Schueller persuasively argues that current notions about the East can be better understood as latter-day manifestations of the earlier U.S. visions of the Orient refracted variously through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472087746
• ISBN13: 9780472087747
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"