Desert Songs: Western Images of Morocco and Moroccan Images of the WestIn an unusual approach to cultural studies, John Maier examines a wide variety of modern Western and Eastern texts. He brings together very different forms of cultural production: modern and postmodern fiction and folktales, advertising copy and oral histories, travel literature, and ethnographic studies. Many academic disciplines are also juxtaposed—literature and literary theory, linguistics, history, psychoanalysis, sociology, film studies, women's studies, and anthropology—largely because they have themselves been transformed by the cultural questions raised here. |
Contents
Watching the Sufis Dance | 63 |
Chapter Three Two Fathers General | 89 |
Chapter Four Jane Bowles and the SemiOriental Woman | 119 |
Chapter Six Elizabeth Ferneas Moroccan Pilgrimage | 161 |
Five Moroccan Writers | 177 |
Chapter Eight Two Moroccan Storytellers in Paul Bowless | 211 |
Woman as Heroas Victim | 229 |
Chapter Ten In the Service of Aisha Qandisha | 251 |
Conclusion | 267 |
Notes | 289 |
Bibliography | 319 |
Index | 339 |
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