Western Representations of the Muslim Woman Mohja Kahf

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Western Representations of the Muslim Woman Mohja Kahf

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Résumé

How the image of Muslim women changed in Western literature from medieval times to the Romantic era.

Western Representations of the Muslim Woman Résumé

Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque Mohja Kahf

Veiled, secluded, submissive, oppressed-the odalisque image has held sway over Western representations of Muslim women since the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Yet during medieval and Renaissance times, European writers portrayed Muslim women in exactly the opposite way, as forceful queens of wanton and intimidating sexuality.

In this illuminating study, Mohja Kahf traces the process through which the termagant became an odalisque in Western representations of Muslim women. Drawing examples from medieval chanson de geste and romance, Renaissance drama, Enlightenment prose, and Romantic poetry, she links the changing images of Muslim women to changes in European relations with the Islamic world, as well as to changing gender dynamics within Western societies.

Western Representations of the Muslim Woman Avis

An insightful and provocative book. With an impressive knowledge of European literature from the medieval period to the mid-nineteenth century and in command of literary and feminist criticisms as well as Islamic history, Mohja Kahf unearths and revives conveniently forgotten images of Muslim women. This fascinating genealogyorelegated to oblivion, pushed in the footnotes, forced into invisibilityoreveals the evolving images of the Muslim women in the West. Farzaneh Milani, Associate Professor of Persian and Women's Studies, University of Virginia

À propos de Mohja Kahf

Mohja Kahf is a professor in the English department and the Middle Eastern Studies Program at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

Sommaire

Acknowledgments
One. Introduction
Two. The Muslim Woman in Medieval Texts. Dame, ne parlez tant!
Three. The Muslim Woman in Renaissance Texts. Una mujer a la morisca vestida
Four. The Muslim Woman from Enlightenment to Romanticism. Je la fis entrer dans les appartements secrets
Five. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Informations supplémentaires

Sku

CIN0292743378G

ISBN 13

9780292743373

ISBN 10

0292743378

Titre

Western Representations of the Muslim Woman: From Termagant to Odalisque Mohja Kahf

Auteur

Mohja Kahf

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Occasion - Bon état

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Broché

Éditeur

University of Texas Press

Année de publication

19990601

Nombre de pages

219

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