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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeğenoğlu, Meyda, author.

Series:

Cambridge cultural social studies.

Cambridge cultural social studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist literary criticism.

East and West in literature.

Exoticism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 182 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this 1998 book, Meyda Yegenoglu investigates the intersection between post-colonial and feminist criticism, focusing on the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient. She examines the veil as a site of fantasy and of nationalist ideologies and discourses of gender identity, analyzing travel literature, anthropological and literary texts to reveal the hegemonic, colonial identity of the desire to penetrate the veiled surface of 'otherness'. Representations of cultural difference and sexual difference are shown to be inextricably linked, and the figure of the Oriental woman to have functioned as the veiled interior of Western identity.

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.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-511-58344-3

0-511-00565-2