Egypt Land: Race and Nineteenth-Century American EgyptomaniaDuke University Press, 2004/11/19 - 348 ページ Egypt Land is the first comprehensive analysis of the connections between constructions of race and representations of ancient Egypt in nineteenth-century America. Scott Trafton argues that the American mania for Egypt was directly related to anxieties over race and race-based slavery. He shows how the fascination with ancient Egypt among both black and white Americans was manifest in a range of often contradictory ways. Both groups likened the power of the United States to that of the ancient Egyptian empire, yet both also identified with ancient Egypt’s victims. As the land which represented the origins of races and nations, the power and folly of empires, despots holding people in bondage, and the exodus of the saved from the land of slavery, ancient Egypt was a uniquely useful trope for representing America’s own conflicts and anxious aspirations. Drawing on literary and cultural studies, art and architectural history, political history, religious history, and the histories of archaeology and ethnology, Trafton illuminates anxieties related to race in different manifestations of nineteenth-century American Egyptomania, including the development of American Egyptology, the rise of racialized science, the narrative and literary tradition of the imperialist adventure tale, the cultural politics of the architectural Egyptian Revival, and the dynamics of African American Ethiopianism. He demonstrates how debates over what the United States was and what it could become returned again and again to ancient Egypt. From visions of Cleopatra to the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, from the works of Pauline Hopkins to the construction of the Washington Monument, from the measuring of slaves’ skulls to the singing of slave spirituals—claims about and representations of ancient Egypt served as linchpins for discussions about nineteenth-century American racial and national identity. |
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... politics of race are , moreover , characteristically divided in ways that made one of the main motions of this project that of negotia- tion — between fields that are concerned with the signs of the sacred and those that are more ...
... politics of power and oppres- sion : half secular greatness , pure and progenitive , half religious oppres- sion , despotic and destructive . At times it was divided along the lines of liberation : operating at once as a sign of ...
... politics of race . Ancient Egypt and its representations were crucibles for conflicting and often contradictory assumptions about some of the most critical and foundational social and political issues in operation throughout America in ...
... politics of race and race - based slavery , and the terms of this management were both literal and metaphorical . They were literal in that , for example , " actual " Egyptians - especially those who were long dead — were used as ...
... , for both black and white Americans were aware of the radical con- tradictions contained — or not — by their own visions of ancient Egypt , and even given a relatively clear politics of racialized self - " THIS EGYPT OF THE WEST " 9.
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A Veritable HeNigger after All EGYPT ETHNOLOGY AND THE CRISES OF HISTORY | 41 |
The Egyptian Moment RACIAL RUPTURES AND THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMAGINARY | 85 |
The Curse of the Mummy RACE REANIMATION AND THE EGYPTIAN REVIVAL | 121 |
Undressing Cleopatra RACE SEX AND BODILY INTERIORITY IN NINETEENTHCENTURY AMERICAN EGYPTOMANIA | 165 |
Egypt Land SLAVERY UPRISING AND SIGNIFYING THE DOUBLE | 222 |
Notes | 263 |
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