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Author Spackman, Barbara, 1952- author.

Title Accidental Orientalists : modern Italian travelers in Ottoman lands / Barbara Spackman.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2017.
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Transnational Italian cultures
Transnational Italian cultures.
Note Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One: Detourism: The Orientalism of Amalia Nizzoli's Egyptian Memoirs Chapter Two: Hygiene in the Harem: The Orientalism of Cristina di Belgiojoso Chapter Three: Male Masquerade in Mecca Chapter Four: Muslim in Milan: The Orientalisms of Leda Rafanelli Epilogue: Divorce Islamic Style: Passing and Posing as Muslim and Tunisian in Post-colonial Italy Works Cited.
Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Detourism: The Orientalism of Amalia Nizzoliâ#x80;#x99;s Egyptian Memoirs -- 2. Hygiene in the Harem: The Orientalism of Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso -- 3. Male Masquerade in Mecca: Passing and Posing in Nineteenth-Century Egypt -- 4. Muslim in Milan: The Orientalisms of Leda Rafanelli -- Epilogue: Divorce Islamic Style: Passing and Posing as Muslim and Tunisian in Postcolonial Italy -- Works Cited
Summary This is the first monograph in English to address Orientalism in the writings of Italian travellers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to do against a backdrop of comparative reference to works in English and French that preceded or were contemporary to them.
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Subject Italians -- Middle East -- History -- 19th century.
Italians.
Middle East.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Italians -- Middle East -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Middle East -- Civilization -- 19th century.
Civilization.
Middle East -- Civilization -- 20th century.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Italian.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: 9781786940209
ISBN 9781786948083 (electronic book)
1786948087 (electronic book)
1786940205
9781786940209
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