Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 13:51:20 -0400
Subject: U.S. Orientalisms by Malini Johar Schueller


The University of Michigan Press is pleased to announce the publication of 
a paperback version of U.S. Orientalisms: Race, Nation, and Gender in 
Literature, 1790-1890 by Malini Johar Schueller.

U.S. Orientalisms is the first extensive and politicized study of 
nineteenth-century American discourses that helped build an idea of 
nationhood with control over three "Orients": the "Barbary" Orient; the 
Orient of Egypt; and the Orient of India.  Malini Johar Schueller 
persuasively argues that current notions about the East can be better 
understood as latter-day manifestations of the earlier U.S. visions of the 
Orient refracted variously through millennial fervor, racial-cultural 
difference, and ideas of westerly empire.

Schueller draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, 
Rey Chow, and Judith Butler and compellingly demonstrates how a raced, 
compensatory "Orientalist" discourse of empire was both contested and 
evoked in the literary works of a wide variety of writers.  The book will 
be of interest to readers in American history, postcolonial studies, gender 
studies, and literary theory.

U.S. Orientalisms by Malini Johar Schueller, paper, 0-472-08774-6, 6 x 9, 
264 pages,
3 illustrations, $18.95 US / £12.50 UK & Europe*.  (*Available in the UK & 
Europe through Plymbridge.)

For additional information, please visit UM Press website at 
www.press.umich.edu or call the Business Office at 734-764-4392 to purchase 
the book.



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