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How the Arabian nights inspired the American dream, 1790-1935
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- Creator
- Susan Nance
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
- ©2009
- Physical Details
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- xi, 344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807832745, 080783274X, 9781469605784, 1469605783, 1469614952, 9780807894057, 0807894052
- OCLC
- ocn261174164, ocn435526738
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-334) and index.
- Introduction: Playing Eastern -- Capitalism and the Arabian nights, 1790-1892 -- Ex Oriente Lux : playing Eastern for a living, 1838-1875 -- Wise men of the East and the market for American fraternalism, 1850-1892 -- Arab athleticism and the exoticization of the American dream, 1870-1920 -- Making the familiar strange : the racial politics of Eastern exotic, 1893-1929 -- Eastern femininities for modern women, 1893-1930 -- Turbans and capitalism, 1893-1930 -- Sign of promise : African Americans and Eastern personae in the Great Depression
Subjects
- Arabian nights.
- Orientalism -- United States -- History.
- Performing arts -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
- Popular culture -- United States -- History.
- Capitalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
- United States -- Civilization -- Arab influences.
- Arab countries -- Foreign public opinion, American.
- United States -- Civilization -- 1783-1865.
- United States -- Civilization -- 20th century.
- United States -- Economic conditions.