"The Terrible Turk" in industrial America: a case of orientalism in late nineteenth-century American newspapers.
This study analyzes Orientalism and masculinity in the discourse of American newspapers in the late nineteenth century. For this purpose, it focuses on the newspaper reports about a Muslim-Ottoman athlete, Yusuf İsmail, who achieved enough fame to attract the media's attention with his prowess in wr...
| Publicado en: | American Nineteenth Century History Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 271 - 298 |
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