Screen LibraryOrientalism, gender, and the jews : literary and artistic transformations of european national discourses /
This collection of essays originates in the collaboration of the international Research Network "Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism." The interdisciplinary volume proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to co...
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De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin : |
| Publication Dates: | [2014] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Europ isch-j dische studien beitr ge; 23 |
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| Summary: |
This collection of essays originates in the collaboration of the international Research Network "Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism." The interdisciplinary volume proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to colonialism and Orientalism. |
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1 online resource (vi, 320 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110339109 |
| Index Number: | DS135 |
| CLC: | K508 |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews / Asians in Europe / Prussians, Jews, Egyptians? / "Good to Think" / Ephraim Moses Lilien / Zionism, Colonialism, and the German Empire / Kafka s "Schakale und Araber" and the Question of Genre / Desire, Excess, and Integration / Jewish Drag / Re-Orientalizing the Jew / "All Jews are womanly, but no women are Jews." / Between Orientalization and Self-Orientalization / To See or Not to See / Veils in Action / Embodied Protest / Works Cited -- List of Contributors -- Index. |