A Contact Threesome: Americans, Arabs, and Imperialists
Author: Henry Grey Gorman
Publisher/Publication: Vanderbilt University
DOI/ISBN: http://hdl.handle.net/1803/11149
This paper explores how encounters with European empire shaped American missionary and travel writing about the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, critically examining post-spatial turn scholars that have contextualized cultural exchanges in spaces like Mary Louise Pratt's “contact zone.” Exchanging a binary model of encounter for a triangular one, the writer explores the ways that imperial power relations shaped American Protestants' pilgrimages and missions in the Middle East.
