| Description |
1 online resource (x, 182 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge cultural social studies
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Cambridge cultural social studies.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-175) and index. |
| Summary |
Meyda Yegenoglu investigates the intersection between postcolonial and feminist criticism, via the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient. Linking representations of cultural and sexual difference, she shows the Oriental woman to have functioned as the veiled interior of Western identity. Her original and compelling argument calls into question dualistic conceptions of identity and difference, West and East, masculinist assumptions of Orientalism, and Western feminist discourses that seek to "liberate" the veiled woman. |
| Contents |
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-ations: Enlightenment and Western feminism -- The battle of the veil: woman between Orientalism and nationalism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Feminist literary criticism.
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Feminist literary criticism. |
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East and West in literature.
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East and West in literature. |
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Exoticism in literature.
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Exoticism in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Yegenoglu, Meyda. Colonial fantasies. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998 052148233X (DLC) 97025638 (OCoLC)37293229 |
| ISBN |
0511005652 (electronic book) |
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9780511005657 (electronic book) |
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052148233X |
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0521626587 (paperback) |
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