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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... tion " ( 419 ) . Less often considered in Morocco is the way Moroccan natives are shunted off when they are no longer useful to the story . Amy Jolly is a chanteuse who chooses to follow the American legionnaire . Her decision places ...
... tion " ( 419 ) . Less often considered in Morocco is the way Moroccan natives are shunted off when they are no longer useful to the story . Amy Jolly is a chanteuse who chooses to follow the American legionnaire . Her decision places ...
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... tion the United States is the " wild " West . ( Tom Brown in the French for- eign legion is an extension of the American cowboy . ) More than two hundred years after its birth , the United States is still the first postcolo- nial ...
... tion the United States is the " wild " West . ( Tom Brown in the French for- eign legion is an extension of the American cowboy . ) More than two hundred years after its birth , the United States is still the first postcolo- nial ...
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... tion by the law itself ? Americans living in Morocco study Moroccan Arabic , as often as Standard Arabic , to speak with " the people , " carrying out a program that American linguists during and after World War II initiated to codify ...
... tion by the law itself ? Americans living in Morocco study Moroccan Arabic , as often as Standard Arabic , to speak with " the people , " carrying out a program that American linguists during and after World War II initiated to codify ...
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... tion , Moulay Ismail is not just condemned for his excesses . The sul- tan — and by extension , the society that produced him — came to symbolize everything that was wrong with despotic and " primitive " rule . Hassan Mekouar has ...
... tion , Moulay Ismail is not just condemned for his excesses . The sul- tan — and by extension , the society that produced him — came to symbolize everything that was wrong with despotic and " primitive " rule . Hassan Mekouar has ...
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... tion , as Egyptian Najib Mahfouz made clear when he wondered , upon becoming the first writer in Arabic to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature , why the award was not given to a poet . It is the prestige of narrative in the West than ...
... tion , as Egyptian Najib Mahfouz made clear when he wondered , upon becoming the first writer in Arabic to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature , why the award was not given to a poet . It is the prestige of narrative in the West than ...
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.