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UNINA9910788561703321 |
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Titolo |
Orientalism, gender, and the Jews : literary and artistic transformations of European national discourses / / edited by Ulrike Brunotte, Anna-Dorothea Ludewig, and Axel Stähler |
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Berlin, Germany : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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3-11-033911-0 |
3-11-039553-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (326 p.) |
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Collana |
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Europäisch-jüdische Studien. Beiträge, , 2192-9602 ; ; Volume 23 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Jews - Europe - Identity |
Jews, Oriental |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- 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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Originating in the collaboration of the international Research Network “Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism” (RENGOO), this collection of essays proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to colonialism and Orientalism. The network‌’s collaborative research addresses imaginative and aesthetic rather than sociological questions with particular focus on the function of gender and sexuality in literary, scholarly and artistic transformations of Orientalist images. RENGOO’s first publication explores the ways in which stereotypes of the external and internal Other intertwine. With its interrogation of the roles |
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assumed in this interplay by gender, processes of sexualization, and aesthetic formations, the volume suggests new directions to the interdisciplinary study of gender, antisemitism, and Orientalism. |
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