French Orientalism : Culture, Politics, and the Imagined Other.

By:

Hosford, Desmond

Contributor(s):

Wojtkowski, Chong J

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010.Description: 1 online resource (276 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781443823449
1443823449

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: French Orientalism : Culture, Politics, and the Imagined Other.DDC classification:

303.482440509034

LOC classification:

DS61.85 .F74 2010

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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.

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 ...

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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 ...