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Returning the gaze : the manichean drama of postcolonial exoticism
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ISBN: 9783034318686 3034318685 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford : Peter Lang,

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This book is proposed as a contribution to postcolonial critiques of the colonial and postcolonial exotic. It investigates the exotic as a representation of colonial cultural difference in colonial discourse, culture and history, and its oppositional rewritings in postcolonial thought and literature.


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Racialised gang rape and the reinforcement of dominant order : discourses of gender, race and nation
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ISBN: 9781472414991 9781138368071 9781315580548 9781317140696 Year: 2017 Publisher: London : Routledge,


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The Paris zone : a cultural history, 1840-1944
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ISBN: 9781472428318 9781472449382 9781472449399 9781315554808 9781317021711 9781317021728 Year: 2015 Publisher: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,

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Since the mid-1970s, the colloquial term zone has often been associated with the troubled post-war housing estates on the outskirts of large French cities. However, it once referred to a more circumscribed space: the zone non aedificandi (non-building zone) which encircled Paris from the 1840s to the 1940s. This unusual territory, although marginal in a social and geographical sense, came to occupy a central place in Parisian culture. Previous studies have focused on its urban and social history, or on particular ways in which it was represented during particular periods. By bringing together and analysing a wider range of sources from the duration of the zone's existence, this study offers a rich and nuanced account of how the area was perceived and used by successive generations of Parisian novelists (including Zola and Flaubert), poets, songwriters, artists, photographers, film-makers, politicians and town-planners. More generally, it aims to raise awareness of a neglected aspect of Parisian cultural history while pointing to links between current and past perceptions of the city's periphery. -- Provided by publisher.


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Mediterranean captivity through Arab eyes, 1517-1798
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ISBN: 9789004440241 9004440240 9789004440258 9004440259 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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"The post-Lepanto Mediterranean was the scene of "small wars," to use Fernand Braudel's phrase, which resulted in acts of piracy and captivity. Thousands upon thousands of Europeans and North African Arabs and Turks were seized into bagnios stretching from Cadiz to Valletta and from Salé to Tripoli. Europeans wrote extensively about their ordeals, and so did the North Africans and Levantines. In Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798, Nabil Matar examines the distinct Arabic narrative of captivity. Consulting archives from Tunis to London and from Fez to Paris, Valletta and Rome, Matar has collected, translated, and contextualized the anecdotes, recollections, reports, miracles, letters, fatawa, exempla and short accounts that cumulatively recount the Arabic qiṣṣas al-asrā, or stories of the captives, in the captives' native language and idiom"

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