{"product_id":"egypt-land-9780822333623","title":"Egypt Land","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eEgypt Land\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eMartin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A magnificent piece of scholarship, \u003ci\u003eEgypt Land \u003c\/i\u003edoes 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 \u003ci\u003eThe House That Race Built\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eNational Manhood: Capitalist Citizenship and the Imagined Fraternity of White Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgment xi\u003cbr\u003e Preface: “An Inspired Frenzy of Madness” xv\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: “This Egypt of the West”: Making Race and Nation along the American Nile 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. “A Veritable He-Nigger after All”: Egypt, Ethnology, and the Crises of History 41\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Egyptian Moment: Racial Ruptures and the Archaeological Imaginary 85\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Curse of the Mummy: Race, Reanimation, and the Egyptian Revival 121\u003cbr\u003e 4. Undressing Cleopatra: Race, Sex, and Bodily Interiority in Nineteenth-Century American Egyptomania 165\u003cbr\u003e 5. Egypt Land: Slavery, Uprising, and Signifying the Double 222\u003cbr\u003e Notes 263\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited 315\u003cbr\u003e Index 339","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406036050263,"sku":"9780822333623","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822333623.jpg?v=1730494322","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/egypt-land-9780822333623","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}