[PDF.84pg] Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem (Library of Ottoman Studies)

Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel and the Ottoman Harem (Library of Ottoman Studies)

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 |  2004-09-24 | Original language:English |  9.21 x6.14 x.0l,.0 | File type: PDF | 254 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| rich information and insights|By Customer|This book is about five women writers and travelers in the early decades of the twentieth century in the Ottoman Empire. The authors gives detailed information about these women, and then goes on to analyze their writings in a theoretical framework that is both resonant of Said's Orientalism and critical of it. Through these women's li| |"Lewis' painstaking and imaginative exploration of the 'harem writings' of early twentieth-century Ottoman women illustrates the complex ways in which these women manipulated cultural codes and tried to both challenge and accommodate well-entrenched stereotype

The oppressed yet highly sexualized woman of the Muslim harem is arguably the pivotal figure of Western orientalism. Yet, as Reina Lewis demonstrates, while orientalist thinking has recently been challenged, Western understandings of Middle Eastern culture remain limited. This book presents alternative dialogues between Ottoman and Western women. Lewis examines, from the position of cultural theory, the published autobiographical accounts about segregated life of self-id...

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