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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... TURN LOOSE . What is to be turned loose ? The photograph is visually striking and more complicated than seems necessary . Two sets of human figures are set against that background of brilliant light ( from the direction of " Casablanca ...
... TURN LOOSE . What is to be turned loose ? The photograph is visually striking and more complicated than seems necessary . Two sets of human figures are set against that background of brilliant light ( from the direction of " Casablanca ...
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... turns around the very old Orientalist fantasy of the Eastern woman , the femme fatale . Many of the images of the exotic woman derive from the ancient world , from the depiction of Cleopatra especially , a Cleopatra seen by usually ...
... turns around the very old Orientalist fantasy of the Eastern woman , the femme fatale . Many of the images of the exotic woman derive from the ancient world , from the depiction of Cleopatra especially , a Cleopatra seen by usually ...
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... turn their gaze upon the erotic object . In Morocco , however , Von Sternberg " produces the ulti- mate fetish " by subordinating the male protagonist's gaze to that of the audience . ' The beauty of the woman as object and the screen ...
... turn their gaze upon the erotic object . In Morocco , however , Von Sternberg " produces the ulti- mate fetish " by subordinating the male protagonist's gaze to that of the audience . ' The beauty of the woman as object and the screen ...
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... turning the filmed woman into an object of desire is related to the threat of castration , which the woman symbolizes . Woman , then , stands in patriarchal culture as signifier for the male other , bound by a symbolic order in which ...
... turning the filmed woman into an object of desire is related to the threat of castration , which the woman symbolizes . Woman , then , stands in patriarchal culture as signifier for the male other , bound by a symbolic order in which ...
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... Lahcen Lyusi claim descent from the Prophet , and the story is about the confirmation of the saint's power , or baraka . The odd turn is that although the saint's wrath was kindled at the treatment of slaves , the story Introduction 17.
... Lahcen Lyusi claim descent from the Prophet , and the story is about the confirmation of the saint's power , or baraka . The odd turn is that although the saint's wrath was kindled at the treatment of slaves , the story Introduction 17.
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.