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Toward a feminist reading of orientalism, takes to a new level the underexamined question of the gender and sexuality of orientalism. Said, in which the author developed the idea of orientalism to define the wests historically patronizing representations of the eastthe societies and peoples who. Postorientalism is a sustained record of hamid dabashis reflections over many years on the question of authority and power. She examines the veil as a site of fantasy and of nationalist ideologies and discourses of gender identity, analyzing travel literature, anthropological and literary texts to reveal the hegemonic, colonial. Buy colonial fantasies by meyda yegenoglu with free delivery. It is a conceptually and intellectually elegant, subtle and politically trenchant book and as such, it will nterest everyone concerned with the contemporary processes of global politics in a wide range of fields. This book provides a concise text on the evolution and development of the. Much of his reputation derives from the phenomenal multidisciplinary influence of his 1978 book orientalism. Used books may not include companion materials, some shelf wear, may. Colonial fantasies by meyda yegenoglu cambridge core. It challenges dualistic conceptions of identity and difference, west and east, and questions. Now reissued with a substantial new afterword, this highly acclaimed overview of western attitudes towards the east has become one of the canonical texts of cultural studies. Nielsen book data summary in this 1998 book, meyda yegenoglu investigates the intersection between postcolonial and feminist criticism, focusing on the western fascination with the veiled women of the orient.
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