National Anxieties and Negotiating Difference in American Barbary Captivity Narratives

National Anxieties and Negotiating Difference in American Barbary Captivity Narratives

The essay examines the accounts of personal experiences of those Americans who came into contact with the Berbers along the North African coast in the decades after the proclamation of American independence. The national anxieties and personal reflections arising from the encounter by Americans with...

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Main Author: Nikoletta Papadopoulou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2019-03-01
Series:USAbroad
Subjects:
barbary captivity
american orientalism
muslim orient
Online Access:https://usabroad.unibo.it/article/view/8570
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spelling doaj-878d33f42b21483f9e52eac584bb33be2020-11-25T02:18:19ZengUniversity of BolognaUSAbroad2611-27522019-03-012110.6092/issn.2611-2752/85707872National Anxieties and Negotiating Difference in American Barbary Captivity NarrativesNikoletta Papadopoulou0University of CyprusThe essay examines the accounts of personal experiences of those Americans who came into contact with the Berbers along the North African coast in the decades after the proclamation of American independence. The national anxieties and personal reflections arising from the encounter by Americans with a religiously and culturally complex, distant society on the southern Mediterranean shore are explored. Most American captivity narratives reveal a complex relation to the construction of American identity, where the Orient becomes a zone of contact in which themes related to selfhood and nationhood are constantly negotiated and reconstructed.https://usabroad.unibo.it/article/view/8570barbary captivityamerican orientalismmuslim orient
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muslim orient
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title National Anxieties and Negotiating Difference in American Barbary Captivity Narratives
title_short National Anxieties and Negotiating Difference in American Barbary Captivity Narratives
title_full National Anxieties and Negotiating Difference in American Barbary Captivity Narratives
title_fullStr National Anxieties and Negotiating Difference in American Barbary Captivity Narratives
title_full_unstemmed National Anxieties and Negotiating Difference in American Barbary Captivity Narratives
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publisher University of Bologna
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publishDate 2019-03-01
description The essay examines the accounts of personal experiences of those Americans who came into contact with the Berbers along the North African coast in the decades after the proclamation of American independence. The national anxieties and personal reflections arising from the encounter by Americans with a religiously and culturally complex, distant society on the southern Mediterranean shore are explored. Most American captivity narratives reveal a complex relation to the construction of American identity, where the Orient becomes a zone of contact in which themes related to selfhood and nationhood are constantly negotiated and reconstructed.
topic barbary captivity
american orientalism
muslim orient
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