Egypt Land : Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Trafton, Scott, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Slavery.
Racism.
Race relations.
Public opinion, American.
Education.
Slavery > United States.
Slavery > Egypt.
Racism > United States > History > 19th century.
United States.
Egypt.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Egypt > Foreign public opinion, American > History > 19th century.
Egypt > Study and teaching > United States > History > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "An inspired frenzy or madness"
  • "This Egypt of the West" : making race and nation along the American Nile
  • "A veritable he-nigger after all" : Egypt, ethnology, and the crises of history
  • The Egyptian moment : racial ruptures and the archaeological imaginary
  • The curse of the mummy : race, reanimation, and the Egyptian revival
  • Undressing Cleopatra : race, sex, and bodily interiority in nineteenth-century American Egyptomania
  • Egypt land : slavery, uprising, and signifying the double.

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