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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... Islam Observed , copyright © 1968 . By permission of Yale University Press . Reprinted from Vincent Crapanzano , Tuhami , Portrait of a Moroccan , copyright © 1980. By permission of the University of Chicago Press . Reprinted from Paul ...
... Islam Observed , copyright © 1968 . By permission of Yale University Press . Reprinted from Vincent Crapanzano , Tuhami , Portrait of a Moroccan , copyright © 1980. By permission of the University of Chicago Press . Reprinted from Paul ...
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... Islam rarely escape imperial or hegemonic designs : by knowing to control the subject . Rana Kabbani's study of travel literature , Europe's Myths of Orient ( 1986 ) , and Martin Bernal's mas- sive Black Athena : The Afroasiatic Roots ...
... Islam rarely escape imperial or hegemonic designs : by knowing to control the subject . Rana Kabbani's study of travel literature , Europe's Myths of Orient ( 1986 ) , and Martin Bernal's mas- sive Black Athena : The Afroasiatic Roots ...
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... Islam . It has not produced the art and literature of the Arab - Muslim world to the extent that a distinctly Moroccan art or , per- haps more important , a Moroccan literature is recognized apart from Arabic literature or from the ...
... Islam . It has not produced the art and literature of the Arab - Muslim world to the extent that a distinctly Moroccan art or , per- haps more important , a Moroccan literature is recognized apart from Arabic literature or from the ...
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... Islam was accepted by a Berber tribe , the Awraba.2 Before that was simply jahiliya , darkness . ( This is rather like beginning American history with Columbus . Morocco before Idris , of course , has been reconstructed by ...
... Islam was accepted by a Berber tribe , the Awraba.2 Before that was simply jahiliya , darkness . ( This is rather like beginning American history with Columbus . Morocco before Idris , of course , has been reconstructed by ...
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... Islam to the Maghrib , the world had become divided conceptually into West and non - West , and the " farthest West " —the meaning of Al- Maghrih Al - Aqsa 4 —had become part of the East and had experienced the " protection " of the ...
... Islam to the Maghrib , the world had become divided conceptually into West and non - West , and the " farthest West " —the meaning of Al- Maghrih Al - Aqsa 4 —had become part of the East and had experienced the " protection " of the ...
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.