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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... land , but they were not invited into Moroccan households . ) Once the leisurely dinner was completed , I was given an unex- pected opportunity — to meet the father of the family , who was off in another room in the apartment . The ...
... land , but they were not invited into Moroccan households . ) Once the leisurely dinner was completed , I was given an unex- pected opportunity — to meet the father of the family , who was off in another room in the apartment . The ...
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... land ? ) The other Moroccan is not going to be turned loose . The Western woman is a study in anger and envy . She is clearly stuck with a depressed clump of body . Is the Western Woman unable to move a Moroccan man ? a Moroccan woman ...
... land ? ) The other Moroccan is not going to be turned loose . The Western woman is a study in anger and envy . She is clearly stuck with a depressed clump of body . Is the Western Woman unable to move a Moroccan man ? a Moroccan woman ...
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... land that he led his wedding party on horseback across a field in zigzag fashion , tacking to take advantage of the wind while ignoring the road that ran directly to his destination . His bizarre maneuver did not go unnoticed : " Lord ...
... land that he led his wedding party on horseback across a field in zigzag fashion , tacking to take advantage of the wind while ignoring the road that ran directly to his destination . His bizarre maneuver did not go unnoticed : " Lord ...
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... land not far removed from Trunnion's navigation . Take a fix on the destination by sighting not just the place itself but by knowing exactly where you are and by reference to a third point in the landscape . Critics of twentieth century ...
... land not far removed from Trunnion's navigation . Take a fix on the destination by sighting not just the place itself but by knowing exactly where you are and by reference to a third point in the landscape . Critics of twentieth century ...
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... land . There she meets both the " citizen of the world " and ( in a humbler gallery ) the ordinary legionnaire , Tom Brown , too poor to pay for the apple she offers him , a man forever borrowing money . Tom Brown is the American ...
... land . There she meets both the " citizen of the world " and ( in a humbler gallery ) the ordinary legionnaire , Tom Brown , too poor to pay for the apple she offers him , a man forever borrowing money . Tom Brown is the American ...
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.