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Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism

Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism

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Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies

Literary CriticismGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0521626587
ISBN13: 9780521626583
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 30 1998
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.11 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
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.

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