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 ix
... become quite dissatisfied with my obsessive concern with Western civilization . If there is a " cen- ter " to that historical - cultural , it is the Renaissance ; and my research , on the English poet Edmund Spenser , required a very ...
... become quite dissatisfied with my obsessive concern with Western civilization . If there is a " cen- ter " to that historical - cultural , it is the Renaissance ; and my research , on the English poet Edmund Spenser , required a very ...
Page xiv
... become more fatal , more evil , and more erotic at the very time that the West was penetrat- ing the East . The Eastern woman attracted men and women , Allen sug- gests , because she was powerful , independent , sexually free , and ...
... become more fatal , more evil , and more erotic at the very time that the West was penetrat- ing the East . The Eastern woman attracted men and women , Allen sug- gests , because she was powerful , independent , sexually free , and ...
Page xv
... become what it will , in fact , later be . ) The mirror in this book evokes the recognition of an " East " as a distorted image of the Western cultural self , an image that nonetheless constructs a self as if it had always existed . The ...
... become what it will , in fact , later be . ) The mirror in this book evokes the recognition of an " East " as a distorted image of the Western cultural self , an image that nonetheless constructs a self as if it had always existed . The ...
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... become lost . MOROCCO FOR EAST , AMERICA FOR WEST Desert Songs concentrates on Morocco for images of the East . Morocco may seem at first an inappropriate choice , since few in the Arab - Muslim world see that North African nation as ...
... become lost . MOROCCO FOR EAST , AMERICA FOR WEST Desert Songs concentrates on Morocco for images of the East . Morocco may seem at first an inappropriate choice , since few in the Arab - Muslim world see that North African nation as ...
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... become clear to me that programs like Fulbright - Hays and the Peace Corps , while they are not exactly unique , are yet an impor- tant part of a distinctly American search for different experiences . Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari ...
... become clear to me that programs like Fulbright - Hays and the Peace Corps , while they are not exactly unique , are yet an impor- tant part of a distinctly American search for different experiences . Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari ...
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.