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Egypt Land
Race and Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania
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2004
About this book
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.
Author / Editor information
Scott Trafton is Assistant Professor of English and African American Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.
Reviews
“Egypt Land is an exceptional interdisciplinary study of the centrality of Egyptomania to considerations of race and nation in nineteenth-century America.”—Robert S. Levine, author of Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
“A magnificent piece of scholarship, Egypt Land does justice to the complexity of the work of nation- and race-making as such work moved circularly along axes of racialized science, ideology, Biblical and political authority, songs, and images, producing social and material effects. In short, the imagining of ancient Egypt was a weapon among an array of agents that both made and resisted, as Scott Trafton puts it, the ‘iconography of empire.’”—Wahneema Lubiano, editor of The House That Race Built
“Now that Scott Trafton has taught us the meaning of Egyptomania, we’ll all be seeing its register everywhere and feeling astonished that we weren’t noticing it before.”—Dana D. Nelson, author of National Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Preface. ‘‘An Inspired Frenzy or Madness’’
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Introduction. ‘‘This Egypt of the West’’: Making Race and Nation along the American Nile
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Chapter One. ‘‘A Veritable He-Nigger after All’’: Egypt, Ethnology, and the Crises of History
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Chapter Two. The Egyptian Moment: Racial Ruptures and the Archaeological Imaginary
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Chapter Three. The Curse of the Mummy: Race, Reanimation, and the Egyptian Revival
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Chapter Four. Undressing Cleopatra: Race, Sex, and Bodily Interiority in Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania
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Chapter Five. Egypt Land: Slavery, Uprising, and Signifying the Double
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Notes
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Works Cited
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Index
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November 19, 2004
eBook ISBN:
9780822386315
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376
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16 illustrations
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