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Book Home and Harem

Download or read book Home and Harem written by Inderpal Grewal and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving across academic disciplines, geographical boundaries, and literary genres, Home and Harem examines how travel shaped ideas about culture and nation in nineteenth-century imperialist England and colonial India. Inderpal Grewal’s study of the narratives and discourses of travel reveals the ways in which the colonial encounter created linked yet distinct constructs of nation and gender and explores the impact of this encounter on both English and Indian men and women. Reworking colonial discourse studies to include both sides of the colonial divide, this work is also the first to discuss Indian women traveling West as well as English women touring the East. In her look at England, Grewal draws on nineteenth-century aesthetics, landscape art, and debates about women’s suffrage and working-class education to show how all social classes, not only the privileged, were educated and influenced by imperialist travel narratives. By examining diverse forms of Indian travel to the West and its colonies and focusing on forms of modernity offered by colonial notions of travel, she explores how Indian men and women adopted and appropriated aspects of European travel discourse, particularly the set of oppositions between self and other, East and West, home and abroad. Rather than being simply comparative, Home and Harem is a transnational cultural study of the interaction of ideas between two cultures. Addressing theoretical and methodological developments across a wide range of fields, this highly interdisciplinary work will interest scholars in the fields of postcolonial and cultural studies, feminist studies, English literature, South Asian studies, and comparative literature.

Book Home and Harem

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Home and Harem written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVMoving across academic disciplines, geographical boundaries, and literary genres, Home and Harem examines how travel shaped ideas about culture and nation in nineteenth-century imperialist England and colonial India. Inderpal Grewal & rsquo;s study of the narratives and discourses of travel reveals the ways in which the colonial encounter created linked yet distinct constructs of nation and gender and explores the impact of this encounter on both English and Indian men and women. Reworking colonial discourse studies to include both sides of the colonial divide, this work is also the first to discuss Indian women traveling West as well as English women touring the East. In her look at England, Grewal draws on nineteenth-century aesthetics, landscape art, and debates about women & rsquo;s suffrage and working-class education to show how all social classes, not only the privileged, were educated and influenced by imperialist travel narratives. By examining diverse forms of Indian travel to the West and its colonies and focusing on forms of modernity offered by colonial notions of travel, she explores how Indian men and women adopted and appropriated aspects of European travel discourse, particularly the set of oppositions between self and other, East and West, home and abroad. Rather than being simply comparative, Home and Harem is a transnational cultural study of the interaction of ideas between two cultures. Addressing theoretical and methodological developments across a wide range of fields, this highly interdisciplinary work will interest scholars in the fields of postcolonial and cultural studies, feminist studies, English literature, South Asian studies, and comparative literature. /div

Book Home Territories

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Morley
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 0415157641
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Home Territories written by David Morley and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home Territories examines how traditional ideas of home, homeland and nation have been destabilised both by new patterns of migration and by new communication technologies which routinely transgress the symbolic boundaries around both the private household and the nation state. David Morley analyses the varieties of exile, diaspora, displacement, connectedness, mobility experienced by members of social groups, and relates the micro structures of the home, the family and the domestic realm, to contemporary debates about the nation, community and cultural identities. He explores issues such as the role of gender in the construction of domesticity, and the conflation of ideas of maternity and home, and engages with recent debates about the 'territorialisation of culture'.

Book The King s Harem

    Book Details:
  • Author : Megan Derr
  • Publisher : Less Than Three Press, LLC
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1620044080
  • Pages : 228 pages

Download or read book The King s Harem written by Megan Derr and published by Less Than Three Press, LLC. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The country of Tavamara is renowned for its famous Market, its decadent wines, the harsh climate in which it manages to flourish. It is also well known for the harems kept by the royal family. King Shahjahan's harem is especially infamous, for his concubines are comprised of an unusual, many say dangerous, assortment... This volume also contains three additional stories. The Jewel of Tavamara Fahima has always been the lesser sister: younger, plainer, too smart and independent. Then her sister commits the ultimate taboo, putting their lives in danger. In order to save her family, Fahima must take her place, though she is painfully aware Shahjahan will never see her as more than a paltry substitute... Knight to Rook Displaced by war, Rook makes a home in the Desert where his cousin Cordelia has become Princess. A famous, highly-regarded strategist back home, in the Desert he is regarded as useless and held in contempt for his inability to fight. Adrift and alone, he can only watch and wait for a chance to prove he belongs amongst the Sons of the Sands. Everything You Need Though he left the Desert years ago and is set to become the next Advisor to the King of Tavamara, Ikram spends most of his days feeling out of place, living a life of civility and calm that is nothing like the Desert he left behind. Eager to get away from the palace for a time, he braves the famous Market...

Book Turkish Harems and Circassian Homes

Download or read book Turkish Harems and Circassian Homes written by Mrs. Harvey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book Women  Narration  and Nation

Download or read book Women Narration and Nation written by Selvy Thiruchandran and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles presented at a conference held in Colombo during 1998.

Book Turkish harems and circassian homes

Download or read book Turkish harems and circassian homes written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book Disidentifications

    Book Details:
  • Author : José Esteban Muñoz
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780816630141
  • Pages : 254 pages

Download or read book Disidentifications written by José Esteban Muñoz and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. Jose Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture -- not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Munoz calls this process "disidentification, " and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism. Disidentifications is also something of a performance in its own right, an attempt to fashion a queer world by working on, with, and against dominant ideology. Whether examining the process of identification in the work of filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, forms of gay male mass culture (such as pornography), museums, art photography, camp and drag, or television, Munoz persistently points to the intersecting and short-circuiting of identities and desires that result from misalignments with the cultural and ideological mainstream in contemporary urban America. Munoz calls attention to the world-making properties found in performances by queers of color -- in Carmelita Tropicana's "Camp/Choteo" style politics, Marga Gomez's performances of queer childhood, Vaginal Creme Davis's "Terrorist Drag, " Isaac Julien's critical melancholia, Jean-Michel Basquiat's disidentification with Andy Warhol and pop art, Felix Gonzalez-Torres's performances of "disidentity, " and the political performance of Pedro Zamora, with AIDS, within the otherwise artificial a person environment of the MTV serial The Real World.

Book Woman and Nation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean Kyoung Kim
  • Publisher : Biblical Interpretation
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Woman and Nation written by Jean Kyoung Kim and published by Biblical Interpretation. This book was released on 2004 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By focusing on the religio-political dimension of the Gospel of John and using a postcolonial framework, Kim reads the Gospel of John as a Jewish nationalist discourse that develops at the expense of its female characters.

Book Turkish Harems   Circassian Homes

Download or read book Turkish Harems Circassian Homes written by Andrée Hope and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harem Histories

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  • Author : Marilyn Booth
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0822348691
  • Pages : 425 pages

Download or read book Harem Histories written by Marilyn Booth and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies.

Book Turkish Harems and Circassian Homes

Download or read book Turkish Harems and Circassian Homes written by Annie Jane Harvey and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Unveiling the Harem

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  • Author : Mary Ann Fay
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 2012-08-27
  • ISBN : 0815651708
  • Pages : 354 pages

Download or read book Unveiling the Harem written by Mary Ann Fay and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of elite women who were concubines and wives of powerful slave-soldiers, known as Mamluks, who dominated Egypt both politically and militarily in the eighteenth century.

Book The Harem

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  • Author : N. M. Penzer
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 2013-01-18
  • ISBN : 0486147584
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book The Harem written by N. M. Penzer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey features photographs and floor plans of Topkapi Palace as well as profiles of the harem's women, their eunuch guards, and court manners, dress, and politics. 42 black-and-white illustrations.

Book Purifying Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deana Heath
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2010-06-03
  • ISBN : 113948818X
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Purifying Empire written by Deana Heath and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purifying Empire explores the material, cultural and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of imperial and colonial rule in the British Empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It charts how a particular bio-political project, namely the drive to regulate the obscene in late nineteenth-century Britain, was transformed from a national into a global and imperial venture and then re-localized in two different colonial contexts, India and Australia, to serve decidedly different ends. While a considerable body of work has demonstrated both the role of empire in shaping moral regulatory projects in Britain and their adaptation, transformation and, at times, rejection in colonial contexts, this book illustrates that it is in fact only through a comparative and transnational framework that it is possible to elucidate both the temporalist nature of colonialism and the political, racial and moral contradictions that sustained imperial and colonial regimes.

Book The harem  slavery and British imperial culture

Download or read book The harem slavery and British imperial culture written by Diane Robinson-Dunn and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late-nineteenth century. It considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, and examines the ways in which the assumptions and dominant imperialist discourses of these abolitionists were challenged by the newly-established Muslim communities in England, as well as by English people who converted to or were sympathetic with Islam. While previous scholars have treated antislavery activity in Egypt first and foremost as an extension of earlier efforts to abolish plantation slavery in the New World, this book considers it in terms of encounters with Islam during a period which it argues marked a new departure in Anglo-Muslim relations. This approach illuminates the role of Islam in the creation of English national identities within the global cultural system of the British Empire. This book would appeal to those with an interest in British imperial history; Islam; gender, feminism, and women’s studies; slavery and race; the formation of national identities; global processes; Orientalism; and Middle Eastern studies.

Book The Objects and Textures of Everyday Life in Imperial Britain

Download or read book The Objects and Textures of Everyday Life in Imperial Britain written by Janet C. Myers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on everyday life in nineteenth-century Britain and its imperial possessions”from preparing tea to cleaning the kitchen, from packing for imperial adventures to arranging home décor”the essays in this collection share a common focus on materiality, the nitty-gritty elements that helped give shape and meaning to British self-definition during the period. Each essay demonstrates how preoccupations with common household goods and habits fueled contemporary debates about cultural institutions ranging from personal matters of marriage and family to more overtly political issues of empire building. While existing scholarship on material culture in the nineteenth century has centered on artifacts in museums and galleries, this collection brings together disparate fields”history of design, landscape history, childhood studies, and feminist and postcolonial literary studies”to focus on ordinary objects and practices, with specific attention to how Britons of all classes established the tenets of domesticity as central to individual happiness, national security, and imperial hegemony.