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BL
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705931
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b528120
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| Main Entry
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Yeğenoğlu, Meyda.
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| Title & Author
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Colonial fantasies : : towards a feminist reading of Orientalism /\ Meyda Yeğenoğlu.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, U.K. ;New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1998.
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| Series Statement
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Cambridge cultural social studies
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| Page. NO
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x, 182 pages ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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052148233X
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: 0521626587
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: 9780521482332
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: 9780521626583
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-175) and index.
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| Contents
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Mapping the field of colonial discourse -- Veiled fantasies: cultural and sexual difference in the discourse of Orientalism -- Supplementing the Orientalist lack: European ladies in the harem -- Sartorial fabric-ations: Enlightenment and Western feminism -- The battle of the veil: woman between Orientalism and nationalism.
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| Abstract
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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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East and West in literature.
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Exoticism in literature.
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Feminist literary criticism.
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| LC Classification
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PN98.W64Y45 1998
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| Parallel Title
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Towards a feminist reading of Orientalism
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