Foreign bodies
Subtitle: gender, language, and culture in French orientalism
By: Madeleine Dobie.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: French literature -- Oriental influences.; Orient -- In literature.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.