Egypt land : race and nineteenth-century American Egyptomania / Scott Trafton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trafton, Scott, 1968-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

New Americanists.

New Americanists

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--United States--History--19th century.

Racism.

Slavery--Egypt.

Slavery.

Slavery--United States.

Egypt--Study and teaching--United States--History--19th century.

Egypt.

Egypt--Foreign public opinion, American--History--19th century.

United States--Race relations--History--19th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 12. Dez 2020)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-338) and index.

ISBN:

9780822386315

0822386313

OCLC:

850219404