Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism / Edition 1

by Meyda Yegenoglu

Overview

Meyda Yegenoglu investigates the intersection between postcolonial and feminist criticism, via the Western fascination with the veiled women of the Orient. Linking representations of cultural and sexual difference, she shows the Oriental woman to have functioned as the veiled interior of Western identity. Her original and compelling argument calls into question dualistic conceptions of identity and difference, West and East, masculinist assumptions of Orientalism, and Western feminist discourses that seek to "liberate" the veiled woman.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521626583
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/30/1998
Series:	Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.71(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Mapping the field of colonial discourse; 2. Veiled fantasies: cultural and sexual difference in the discourse of orientalism; 3. Supplementing the Orientalist lack: European ladies in the harem; 4. Sartorial fabric-action: enlightenment and Western feminism; 5. The battle of the veil: women between Orientalism and nationalism.