TY - BOOK AU - Berman,Jacob Rama ED - Project Muse. TI - American arabesque: Arabs, Islam, and the 19th-century imaginary T2 - America and the long 19th century SN - 9780814789513 AV - PS217.A72 B47 2012 U1 - 810.9/3529927 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - National characteristics, American KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Arabs KW - Race identity KW - Islam in literature KW - National characteristics, American, in literature KW - American literature KW - History and criticism KW - Arabs in literature KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Guest Figures -- The Barbarous Voice of Democracy -- Pentimento Geographies -- Poe's Arabesque -- American Moors and the Barbaresque -- Arab Masquerade : Mahjar Identity Politics and Trans-nationalism -- Afterword: Haunted Houses UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780814789513/ ER -