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Journal Article
WILLIAM SHALER'S SKETCHES OF ALGIERS, OR ORIENTALISM AND THE MONROE DOCTRINE AS STRANGE BED FELLOWS
2016
Overview
In doing so, Shaler adopts a flexible positionality, the hallmark of orientalist discourse, by stressing the positive aspects of the Barbary legend created around the Regency of Algiers while simultaneously attenuating its fearful aspects in order to make Algiers look a better asset for British capitalist interests than the newly independent Latin American countries. Surprised at a moment when the Algerian fleet was out corsairing, the American commissioners forced the day to sign a more honorable treaty to the United States by annulling the obligation of payment of tribute that had hurt the national pride for nearly two decades. Doctor Shaw's Travels in Barbary and the Levant furnish, in the author's opinion, the only safe guide to the investigation of the geography, natural history, and antiquities of the Kingdom of Algiers. [...]as the above quote indicates the Orient as text was already so thick a description that Shaler had at his disposal a huge number of orientalist intertexts out of which he could patch up his own representation of the orient. In the final analysis, one could argue that though by the time Shaler officially took his position as Consul General in Algiers in 1815, captivity had ceased to be a physical experience for Americans, but strictly speaking he remains a captive of a compound of ideologies: one of them is the Monroe Doctrine, the other is Orientalism, and the third is American imperial nationalism with an Anglo-Saxon global slant. MacCartney John T., Black Ideologies: An Essay in African-American Political...
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International Journal of Arts and Sciences LLC
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