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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... Woman : The Feminization of the Orient in The Aeneid 35 Chapter Two Silence and Ecstasy : Watching the Sufis Dance 63 Chapter Three Two Fathers General 89 Chapter Four Jane Bowles and the Semi - Oriental Woman 119 Chapter Five ...
... Woman : The Feminization of the Orient in The Aeneid 35 Chapter Two Silence and Ecstasy : Watching the Sufis Dance 63 Chapter Three Two Fathers General 89 Chapter Four Jane Bowles and the Semi - Oriental Woman 119 Chapter Five ...
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... woman . Presumably , he is leading the woman , who is known to be young and beautiful ( only because the eyes are visible ) , to " Casablanca . " She gazes at him with an expression that seems a mixture of fascination and fear . He does ...
... woman . Presumably , he is leading the woman , who is known to be young and beautiful ( only because the eyes are visible ) , to " Casablanca . " She gazes at him with an expression that seems a mixture of fascination and fear . He does ...
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... woman , immobile , looking peev- ishly at the man and the veiled woman moving away from her . Next to the Western woman is a sexless lump of clothes . The body beneath the black djellaba and headpiece entirely obscures the age ...
... woman , immobile , looking peev- ishly at the man and the veiled woman moving away from her . Next to the Western woman is a sexless lump of clothes . The body beneath the black djellaba and headpiece entirely obscures the age ...
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... 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 hostile Roman eyes . The Aeneid , as chapter I will show , is a ...
... 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 hostile Roman eyes . The Aeneid , as chapter I will show , is a ...
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... - Jose Fortis . " Asia under the Sign of Woman : The Feminization of the Orient in The Aeneid , " reprinted from Works and Days 18 ( 1991 ) : 89-116 . By per- mission of David B. Downing . " Silence and Ecstasy : Watching the Sufis Dance ,
... - Jose Fortis . " Asia under the Sign of Woman : The Feminization of the Orient in The Aeneid , " reprinted from Works and Days 18 ( 1991 ) : 89-116 . By per- mission of David B. Downing . " Silence and Ecstasy : Watching the Sufis Dance ,
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.