How the Arabian nights inspired the American dream, 1790-1935 /
Nance, Susan.
Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press,
c2009.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-334) and index.
Introduction: Playing Eastern -- Capitalism and the Arabian nights, 1790-1892 -- Ex Oriente Lux : playing Eastern for a living, 1838-1875 -- Wise men of the East and the market for American fraternalism, 1850-1892 -- Arab athleticism and the exoticization of the American dream, 1870-1920 -- Making the familiar strange : the racial politics of Eastern exotic, 1893-1929 -- Eastern femininities for modern women, 1893-1930 -- Turbans and capitalism, 1893-1930 -- Sign of promise : African Americans and Eastern personae in the Great Depression.
Arabian nights.
Orientalism
Performing arts
Popular culture
Capitalism