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How the Arabian nights inspired the American dream, 1790-1935 / Susan Nance.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nance, Susan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orientalism--United States--History.
- Orientalism.
- Performing arts--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Performing arts.
- Popular culture--United States--History.
- Popular culture.
- Capitalism--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Capitalism.
- United States--Civilization--Arab influences.
- United States.
- Arab countries--Foreign public opinion, American.
- Arab countries.
- United States--Civilization--1783-1865.
- United States--Civilization--20th century.
- United States--Economic conditions.
- Arabian nights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (359 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Americans have always shown a fascination with the people, customs, and legends of the ""East""--witness the popularity of the stories of the Arabian Nights, the performances of Arab belly dancers and acrobats, the feats of turban-wearing vaudeville magicians, and even the antics of fez-topped Shriners. In this captivating volume, Susan Nance provides a social and cultural history of this highly popular genre of Easternized performance in America up to the Great Depression. According to Nance, these traditions reveal how a broad spectrum of Americans, including recent immigrants
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908821-8-9
- 1-4696-0578-3
- 0-8078-9405-2
- OCLC:
- 435526738
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