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Autore: | Alloula Malek |
Titolo: | The colonial harem / / Malek Alloula ; translation by Myrna Godzich and Wlad Godzich ; introduction by Barbara Harlow |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1986 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xxii, 135 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 305.40965 |
305.486971065 | |
Soggetto topico: | Harems |
Photography of women | |
Postcards - Algeria | |
Women - Algeria - Social conditions | |
Note generali: | Translation of: Le harem colonial. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; 1. The Orient as Stereotype and Phantasm; 2. Women from the Outside: Obstacle and Transparency; 3. Women's Prisons; 4. Women's Quarters; 5. Couples; 6. The Figures of the Harem: Dress and Jewelry; 7. Inside the Harem: The Rituals; 8. Song and Dance: Almehs and Bayaderes; 9. Oriental Sapphism; 10. The Colonial Harem: Images of a Suberoticism; Notes; Selected Bibliography |
Sommario/riassunto: | A collection of picture postcards of Algerian women exploited by the French, this "album" illustrates a powerful analysis of the distorting, denigrating effects of their presence on Algerian Society. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Colonial harem |
ISBN: | 0-8166-8218-6 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910814214103321 |
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