Gender and sexuality have long held an important place in western
attitudes towards the people and regions of the world--from the
titillating accounts of harem life in the Middle East to terrifying
captivity narratives of North America. "The Erotic Margin "is a
first attempt to pull together the large, disparate, and often
contradictory literature, and view it as a corpus. Schick argues
that such images served to construct spatial difference, and
thereby helped Europe represent its own place in the world during
an age of rapid geographical expansion.
Informed by the recent literature on human geography as well as
feminist and postcolonial theory, "The Erotic Margin" focuses on
erotica and sexual anthropology as well as travel literature in
which, from the eighteenth century on, both traveler and
destination were portrayed in unmistakably gendered and sexualized
terms. Reviewing examples ranging from the New World to India, the
Near East to black Africa, and the South sea islands to the Barbary
Coast, the book reflects on why foreign women were variously
portrayed as alluring or threatening, foreign men as effeminate
weaklings or dangerous rapists, and foreign lands as sexual idylls
or hearts of darkness.
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