Imagining Arab womanhood : the cultural mythology of veils, harems, and belly dancers in the U.S. /...
Imagining Arab womanhood : the cultural mythology of veils, harems, and belly dancers in the U.S. /...
Imagining Arab womanhood : the cultural mythology of veils, harems, and belly dancers in the U.S. / by Amira Jarmakani.
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New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Date
2008.
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N305.48892/ 2
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English
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xiii, 236 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Introduction : excavating Orientalist images of Arab womanhood -- Traveling Orientalism : U.S. echoes of a French tradition -- Dancing the hootchy kootchy : the rhythms and contortions of American Orientalism -- Selling Little Egypt : the commodification of Arab womanhood -- Veiled intentions : the...
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New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
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New York (State)
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2008.
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"Imagining Arab Womanhood examines orientalist images of Arab womanhood in the United States since the turn of the twentieth century, exploring, in particular, representations of belly dancers, harem girls, and veiled women. Through semiotic analysis, Jarmakani demonstrates that these images have functioned as nostalgic placeholders for pressing, y...
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Imagining Arab womanhood : the cultural mythology of veils, harems, and belly dancers in the U.S. / by Amira Jarmakani.
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N305.48892/ 2
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0230604722
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305.488927
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