Washington Irving and Islam (eBook)

Critical Essays

Zubeda Jalalzai (Herausgeber)

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2018
136 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6967-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines Washington Irving’s biography of the Prophet Muhammed and his other writings that engage Islamic history and the Muslim world. It explores the influence of Spain, Muslim and Christian legends, gender, and heroic biographies on Irving’s writing and illustrates Irving’s articulation of Orientalism and American nationalism.

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Washington Irving and Islam contributes to understanding the relationship between the United States and the Islamic world, valuable not only for studies of Washington Irving, American Literature, or Islam, but also for thinking through the role Islam and the ';Orient' have played in American literature and history, a critical field receiving ever-increasing attention. The global context of Irving's work ties these essays together as does an understanding that his writings challenge easy classification of the Muslim other, and, indeed, challenge easy classification of Irving's own responses to that other. Washington Irving bestrides opposing positions as well as distant worlds.

Autor

Zubeda Jalalzai is professor of English at Rhode Island College.

Inhalt

Spanish Orientalism: Washington Irving and the Romance of the Moors Michael Stevens What Pious Moslem Writers Tell Us: Irving’s Filtering of His Sources in Mahomet and His Successors Ray Lacina A Knickerbocker Prophet: Washington Irving’s Americanization of “Mahomet” Doyle QuiggleThink Local, Act Global: The Development of Islam in Washington Irving’s Mahomet and His Successors Jeffrey Scraba Irving's Cadijah and Women of Power in Salmagundi and MahometTracy Hoffman Afterword: The Seal and Conclusion Jeffrey Einboden

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.5.2018
• Co-Autor: Jeffrey Einboden, Tracy Hoffman, Zubeda Jalalzai, Ray Lacina, Doyle Quiggle; , Jeffrey Scraba, Michael Stevens
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 19th Century America • American Literature • Biography • Islam • Islamic history • Legend • Orientalism • Prophet Muhammed • transnational • transnationalism • Washington Irving
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6967-6 / 1498569676
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6967-5 / 9781498569675