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Colonial Fantasies: Towards a Feminist Reading of Orientalism

By ميدا ييغينوغلو

Published by MAMDOUH ADWAN PUBLISHING HOUSE · 2014

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Meyda Yeğenoğlu rereads Orientalism through feminist theory, asking how colonial power represented the East as feminine and how fantasies of veiling, unveiling and sexual access helped organise imperial authority. Engaging psychoanalysis, post-structuralism and postcolonial criticism, she shows that gender is not a secondary theme within Orientalist discourse but one of its constitutive structures. Colonial Fantasies offers a demanding and influential account of the entanglement of empire, desire and representation. This is the Arabic edition published by Mamdouh Adwan Publishing House.

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