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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... begins with a magnificent framing device : after a map to establish the scene , the film begins with a native having a difficult time trying to get a donkey moving . In the background , first the sounds , then gradually the sight bring ...
... begins with a magnificent framing device : after a map to establish the scene , the film begins with a native having a difficult time trying to get a donkey moving . In the background , first the sounds , then gradually the sight bring ...
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... begins with the text with which the literate Westerner is most comfortable , The Aeneid , and ends with oral histories of Moroccan women , as mediated by American anthro- pologists . Desert Songs is an appropriate , if slightly ironic ...
... begins with the text with which the literate Westerner is most comfortable , The Aeneid , and ends with oral histories of Moroccan women , as mediated by American anthro- pologists . Desert Songs is an appropriate , if slightly ironic ...
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... begin to hint at the beliefs and purposes that lay on the far side made him feel more sure in his own attempts at analyzing them and gave him a small sense of superiority to which he felt he was entitled , in return for having withstood ...
... begin to hint at the beliefs and purposes that lay on the far side made him feel more sure in his own attempts at analyzing them and gave him a small sense of superiority to which he felt he was entitled , in return for having withstood ...
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... begins at the center of the Western tradition ( chapter 1 ) , then moves abruptly to a popular image of the East in ... begin Ricoeur's " detour . " Chapters 7 through 10 attempt to understand Eastern texts . They , too , begin with the ...
... begins at the center of the Western tradition ( chapter 1 ) , then moves abruptly to a popular image of the East in ... begin Ricoeur's " detour . " Chapters 7 through 10 attempt to understand Eastern texts . They , too , begin with the ...
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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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Aeneas Aeneid Ahmed Yacoubi Aisha Aisha Qandisha Allah American ancient anthropologist Arab-Muslim world baraka become chapter character Chukri civilization Cleopatra Collected Stories Crapanzano cultural dancing Desert Song Dido Eastern ecstasy Edith Wharton English Enkidu Everything Is Nice example eyes fascination father Fatima Mernissi Fernea fiction film French Geertz Habiba Hamadsha hero husband important Iron Islam Jane Bowles Jane Bowles's Jeanie language Larbi Larbi Layachi literary literature live Lyautey magic male Margot Marrakech mirror mirror stage Modern Standard Arabic Mohammed Moroccan Arabic Moroccan storytellers Moroccan women Morocco mother Muslim narrative nonliterate North Africa novel oral Oriental Orientalist Paul Bowles Paul Bowles's pilgrimage postmodern Rabinow reader realism Red Shadow ritual saints scene sense short stories Sidi society speak Sufi symbol Tangier tells texts tion tradition translated Trojans Tuhami turn versions village Virgil West Western woman writing Wudei'a Zahrah Zodelia
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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.