Colonial Fantasies
Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism
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- Author: Meyda Yegenoglu, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
- Date Published: June 1998
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- isbn: 9780521626583
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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.
Read more- Unique argument relating post-colonial and feminist discourses in one theory about Orientalism
- Focuses on figure of the veiled woman as archetypal object of Western fascination
- Combines literary and social science approaches
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- Date Published: June 1998
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521626583
- length: 196 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.427kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Mapping the field of colonial discourse
2. Veiled fantasies: cultural and sexual difference in the discourse of orientalism
3. Supplementing the Orientalist lack: European ladies in the harem
4. Sartorial fabric-action: enlightenment and Western feminism
5. The battle of the veil: women between Orientalism and nationalism.
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