Scott Trafton

Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• New Americanists
• Verlag: DUKE UNIV PR
• New
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 183mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333753
• ISBN-10: 0822333759
• Artikelnr.: 22159193

Autorenporträt

Scott Trafton is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations ix
Acknowledgment xi
Preface: “An Inspired Frenzy of Madness” xv
Introduction: “This Egypt of the West”: Making Race and Nation along the
American Nile 1
1. “A Veritable He-Nigger after All”: Egypt, Ethnology, and the Crises of
History 41
2. The Egyptian Moment: Racial Ruptures and the Archaeological Imaginary 85
3. The Curse of the Mummy: Race, Reanimation, and the Egyptian Revival 121
4. Undressing Cleopatra: Race, Sex, and Bodily Interiority in
Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania 165
5. Egypt Land: Slavery, Uprising, and Signifying the Double 222
Notes 263
Works Cited 315
Index 339