Disorienting Vision

Rereading Stereotypes in French Orientalist Texts and Images
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-420-1723-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 212 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 390 g

Reihe: GENUS: Gender in Modern Culture

This book begins with a painting. Loyalty to cultural artefacts, listening carefully to what they have to say, is the secret of Inge E. Boer’s approach to the French Orientalists tradition. In a post-Said manner, Boer provides close readings of philosophical and literary texts, paintings, prints and other artefacts. Her readings establish a dialogue with critical post-colonial and feminist theory as well as (art-) historical and literary scholarship. She treats all these artefacts like subjects in their own right, enabling them to show and tell. This dialogic attention to detail makes for an innovative vision that shuns the sweeping statements of a priori conviction, as much as avoiding the unwitting endorsements that the rhetoric of scholarship sometimes promotes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boer, Inge E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface
1. Framing Representations
2. Despotism Goes West
3. From the Despot’s Point of View?
4. In a Different Light
5. The Masterful Eye: Prints between Fantasy and Epistemological Enterprise
6. Rewriting Difference: Travelogues as Supplement
7. French Women on Oriental Women
Epilogue: Adding to the Palimpsest
Works Cited