French orientalism : culture, politics, and the imagined other / edited by Desmond Hosford and Chong J. Wojtkowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hosford, Desmond.

Wojtkowski, Chong J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orientalism--France--History--19th century.

Orientalism.

East and West.

France--Relations--Orient.

France.

Orient--Relations--France.

Orient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1798, Napoléon I launched his Egyptian Campaign and opened what has become recognized as the canonic period of French Orientalism, which extends from the late eighteenth through the early twentieth century. As defined by Edward W. Said (Orientalism, 1978), Orientalism is intrinsically Eurocentric and places the Orient in opposition to the European West as the quintessentially foreign Other. In this sense, the Occident supposedly defines itself by gazing at the East as its inverse image and...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I; "REGNORUM RUINA"; ONE WOMAN WRITES AN(OTHER); DE-ORIENTALIZING THE 'AITA AND RE-ORIENTING THE SHIKHAT; PART II; THE ROOTS OF EGYPTOMANIA AND ORIENTALISM FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY; CONSTRUCTING THE ORIENT; "PAR CRÉANCE LEGIERE"; PART III; "UNE CHAÎNE SECRÈTE ET EN QUELQUE FAÇON INCONNUE"; TWENTIETH-CENTURY ARAB WOMEN WRITERS AND THE PARADOXICAL SUBVERSION OF THE ORIENTALIST CLICHÉ; "CETTE FRANCE DU SOUS-SOL"; BIBLIOGRAPHY; EDITORS; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-260) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4438-2344-9

OCLC:

823721230