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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... example , is followed by film versions of the popular musical , The Desert Song . Jane Bowles and Paul Bowles are considered along with the nonliterate storytellers Paul Bowles recorded and translated . Many academic disciplines are ...
... example , is followed by film versions of the popular musical , The Desert Song . Jane Bowles and Paul Bowles are considered along with the nonliterate storytellers Paul Bowles recorded and translated . Many academic disciplines are ...
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... example , from a different cultural register , is the 1930 Paramount film Morocco , directed by Josef Von Sternberg . Morocco starred Marlene Dietrich as singer Amy Jolly , Adolphe Menjou as Monsieur La Bessiere , a wealthy " citizen of ...
... example , from a different cultural register , is the 1930 Paramount film Morocco , directed by Josef Von Sternberg . Morocco starred Marlene Dietrich as singer Amy Jolly , Adolphe Menjou as Monsieur La Bessiere , a wealthy " citizen of ...
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... examples from the history of film is Morocco . Where there are usually three " voyeuristic- scopophilic " looks that constitute filmic pleasure , Von Sternberg's film intensifies the male gaze upon the beautiful woman , involving the ...
... examples from the history of film is Morocco . Where there are usually three " voyeuristic- scopophilic " looks that constitute filmic pleasure , Von Sternberg's film intensifies the male gaze upon the beautiful woman , involving the ...
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... examples of the Orientalist gaze . More than that , the book wants to find the song that has been ignored . Looking at the cultural other is always important . People in the East look different , and the Orientalist tradition in the ...
... examples of the Orientalist gaze . More than that , the book wants to find the song that has been ignored . Looking at the cultural other is always important . People in the East look different , and the Orientalist tradition in the ...
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... example or story , bring the point home directly . In a homosocial society like Morocco's , men and women , except for the Western - educated , do not easily talk to one another . When the stranger from America appears , gender ...
... example or story , bring the point home directly . In a homosocial society like Morocco's , men and women , except for the Western - educated , do not easily talk to one another . When the stranger from America appears , gender ...
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.