Colonial Fantasies Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism

Name: Colonial Fantasies Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism
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ISBN: 9780521626583

ISBN-10: 0521626587

ISBN-13: 9780521626583

Edition: 1998

Authors: Meyda Yegenoglu, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman

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Meyda Yegenoglu investigates the intersection between post-colonial and feminist criticism, focusing on the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient. She examines the veil as a site of fantasy and of nationalist ideologies and discourses of gender identity, analyzing travel literature, anthropological and literary texts to reveal the hegemonic, colonial identity of the desire to penetrate the veiled surface of otherness. Representations of cultural difference and sexual difference are shown to be inextricably linked, and the figure of the Oriental woman to have functioned as the veiled interior of Western identity.

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List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/30/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Introduction



Mapping the field of colonial discourse



Veiled fantasies: cultural and sexual difference in the discourse of orientalism



Supplementing the Orientalist lack: European ladies in the harem



Sartorial fabric-action: Enlightenment and Western feminism



The battle of the veil: women between Orientalism and nationalism