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. |
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Page vii
... Eastern texts in a series of cultural studies . The East in this case is at first the Middle East of Orientalist fascination , an East described from the outsiders . Then the voices of the Middle East and North Africa are heard ...
... Eastern texts in a series of cultural studies . The East in this case is at first the Middle East of Orientalist fascination , an East described from the outsiders . Then the voices of the Middle East and North Africa are heard ...
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... East and North Africa , America is well - known , but often in such a distorted way that it appears a dream world , a whore more often than I would have liked to hear , but a most seductive one nonetheless . Tamar Liebes of the Hebrew ...
... East and North Africa , America is well - known , but often in such a distorted way that it appears a dream world , a whore more often than I would have liked to hear , but a most seductive one nonetheless . Tamar Liebes of the Hebrew ...
Page ix
... East and North Africa . ( Fulbright fellowships have enabled me to teach at universities in Syria , Jordan , and Morocco . ) My reasons for going to Syria were not entirely innocent . Like Paul Rabinow , when I was completing a ...
... East and North Africa . ( Fulbright fellowships have enabled me to teach at universities in Syria , Jordan , and Morocco . ) My reasons for going to Syria were not entirely innocent . Like Paul Rabinow , when I was completing a ...
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... East and North Africa enough to know at least some of the rules of hospital- ity , and I could understand the Moroccans ' dismay . What only came later , though , was a very American response . If the businessman in the story was such a ...
... East and North Africa enough to know at least some of the rules of hospital- ity , and I could understand the Moroccans ' dismay . What only came later , though , was a very American response . If the businessman in the story was such a ...
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... East . The Eastern woman attracted men and women , Allen sug- gests , because she was powerful , independent , sexually free , and pleasure - seeking . She was " one of the few role models for women in the nineteenth century that ...
... East . The Eastern woman attracted men and women , Allen sug- gests , because she was powerful , independent , sexually free , and pleasure - seeking . She was " one of the few role models for women in the nineteenth century that ...
Contents
Asia under the Sign of Woman The Feminization of the Orient in The Aeneid | 35 |
Silence and Ecstasy Watching the Sufis Dance | 63 |
Two Fathers General | 89 |
Jane Bowles and the SemiOriental Woman | 119 |
Penetrating the Ramparts Morocco in the Fiction of Paul Bowles | 143 |
Elizabeth Ferneas Moroccan Pilgrimage | 161 |
Insider Views Five Moroccan Writers | 177 |
Two Moroccan Storytellers in Paul Bowless Five Eyes Larbi Layachi and Ahmed Yacoubi | 211 |
Tented Visions Woman as Heroas Victim | 229 |
In the Service of Aisha Qandisha | 251 |
Conclusion | 267 |
Notes | 289 |
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Page 6 - Woman then stands in patriarchal culture as signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his phantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of woman still tied to her place as bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.