LEADER 03994nam 2200649Ia 450 001 9910785933403321 005 20230801225153.0 010 $a0-292-73939-7 024 7 $a10.7560/739383 035 $a(CKB)2670000000273629 035 $a(OCoLC)813844932 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10608364 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755463 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11468646 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755463 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10730206 035 $a(PQKB)11622104 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443624 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18693 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3443624 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10608364 035 $a(OCoLC)932314303 035 $a(DE-B1597)588493 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292739390 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000273629 100 $a20120206d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDesert passions$b[electronic resource] $eOrientalism and romance novels /$fby Hsu-Ming Teo 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (355 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-73938-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aLoving the Orient : the romantic East and European literature -- The rise of the desert romance novel -- E. M. Hull's The Sheik -- The spectacular East : romantic Orientalism in America -- The Orientalist historical romance novel -- The contemporary sheik romance novel : the historical background -- Harems, houris, heroines, and heroes -- From tourism to terrorism -- Reader responses to the modern Orientalist romance novel. 330 $aThe Sheik?E. M. Hull?s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino?kindled ?sheik fever? across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically ?Oriental? swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today?s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on ?high? literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women?s Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism. 606 $aOrientalism in literature 606 $aLove stories$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aEast and West in literature 607 $aOrient$xIn literature 615 0$aOrientalism in literature. 615 0$aLove stories$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aEast and West in literature. 676 $a809/.933585 700 $aTeo$b Hsu-Ming$f1970-$01494564 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785933403321 996 $aDesert passions$93718139 997 $aUNINA