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Foreign Bodies - Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism (Paperback, New edition)
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Foreign Bodies - Gender, Language, and Culture in French Orientalism (Paperback, New edition)
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Building on the critical foundations established by Edward Said in
Orientalism, Foreign Bodies examines the relationship between the
Orientalist tradition in French art and literature and France's
colonial history. It focuses on a central dimension of this
exchange: the prevalent figure of the "oriental woman," and the
interplay of race and gender in both domestic and colonial history.
It also offers a genealogy of contemporary French attitudes to
Islamic culture, in which beliefs about sexuality and gender
relations continue to occupy a privileged place. The author
examines the extent to which the rhetorical status and political
implications of Orientalism register the changing circumstances of
French colonial activity, tracing the convergence, or divergence,
of colonial practice and the literary record. She also argues
against the tendency, in both historical and theoretical writing on
colonialism, to divide center from margins, metropolitan from
colonial. Instead, she shows how colonial products and ideas
permeated the domestic culture and shaped its evolution. Finally,
the book proposes that the feminine figures of Orientalist texts
are often interwoven with representations of language, and more
specifically with representations of language as an alien and
resistant code-something other than the transparent medium of
ideas. It suggests that in promoting awareness that language is not
simply the neutral medium of thought and experience, these veiled
figures of language function as "foreign bodies," creating
disruptive effects within an economy orchestrated toward the
production of knowledge of the other. However, the book also argues
against the view, espoused by certain critics, that the
self-reflexivity of Orientalist writing fully counteracts its
polarizing political effects, arguing instead for a process of
"double reading" that acknowledges both the geopolitical power
encoded within Orientalist representation and the ways in which
specific texts resist this power.
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