Orientalism in America during the Latter Half of the Nineteenth Century_preprint

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study, challenging Siad, examines the nature of Americas Orientalism, focusing on the marriage guide, during the later half of the nineteenth century. Three marriage guides that represent the three modalities of marriage guide of this periodthe medical, the religious, and the pseudo-scientific onereveal that American Orientalism portrays Europe as well as the Arabs, Islam, the African, and the American Indians as the others.
Rendering others in these marriage guides takes a form of bestowing unique but distorted types of femininity upon the Orient and Europe. The physical deformities, particularly portrayed as the abnormalities of female sexual organs, the moral corruptions where women are prone to attach to sexual deviation and extreme materialism, and the overwhelming influences on womans bodies that eventually hinder the preservation of pure American race, are emphasized to signify the characteristics of the Orient. The American Orientalism also determines the characteristics of American women as well as the Orient, justifying the inferiority of both. The examination of marriage guides testifies that American Orientalism was not a mere extension of European Orientalism, or the product of American Zionism either. It was rather a product of the formation of American identity where the non-mainstreamers should first be defined as the others to create the mainstream.

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Introduction
2. The Marriage Guide
3. The Body of Others
4. Moral Corruption of Others
5. The Preservation of Our Race
6. Conclusion
Notes
References