Colonial Fantasies : Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
ISBN-10
0521626587
ISBN-13
9780521626583
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 30th, 1998
Print length
196 Pages
Weight
306 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.90 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Cultural studiesGender studies: women and girlsCultural studiesGender studies: women
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Colonial Fantasies, first published in 1998, examines the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient. It challenges dualistic conceptions of identity and difference, West and East, and questions the traditional masculinist assumptions of Orientalism and feminist discourses which seek to 'liberate' the veiled woman.
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.
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