
Disorienting Vision
Rereading Stereotypes in French Orientalist Texts and Images
Inge E. Boer(Author)
Rodopi (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
228 pages
978-90-420-1723-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1723-8 (9789042017238)
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Content
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
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