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U.S. orientalisms : race, nation, and gender in literature, 1790-1890

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-242) and index.Race(ing) to the Orient -- Algerian slavery and the liberty vision : Royall Tyler, James Ellison, Susanna Rowson, Washington Irving, Peter Markoe -- Missionary colonialism, Egyptology, racial borderlands, and the satiric impulse : M.M. Ballow, William Ware, John DeForest, Maria Susanna Cummins, David F. Dorr -- Subversive orientalisms : Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Prescott Spofford, and Herman Melville -- The culture of Asian orientalism : missionary writings, travel writings, popular poetry -- "Mine Asia" : Emerson's erotics of oriental possession -- Whitman, Columbus, and the Asian mother.
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Keywords

  1. Africa, North
  2. American Literature
  3. Asia
  4. Foreign Public Opinion, American
  5. History And Criticism
  6. Imperialism In Literature
  7. In Literature
  8. Nationalism In Literature
  9. Oriental Influences
  10. Race In Literature
  11. Sex In Literature
  12. Stereotypes (Social Psychology) In Literature

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