Colonial fantasies : towards a feminist reading of Orientalism / Meyda Yegenoglu.

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Yeğenoğlu, Meyda

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge cultural social studiesPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (x, 182 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0511005652
9780511005657
9780511583445
0511583443
9780521482332
052148233X
9780521626583
0521626587

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Colonial fantasies.DDC classification:

809/.89287 21

LOC classification:

PN98.W64 Y45 1998eb

Other classification:

02.99
73.45
EH 5366
MK 2700

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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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-175) and index.

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.

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