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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Jenhams Books [4204590], Dundee, United Kingdom.
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A provocative and appropriately subversive book. The New York TimesIn travel books and Orientalist painting, the Victorian concept of an erotic East as a grand harem with endless potential for pleasure and perversion fueled romantic imaginations, art, and commerce. These racial and sexual stereotypes became vital to imperial designs. In Imperial Fictions, Rana Kabbani unravels the erotic fantasies and myths that the West has developed about the East over the ages. Includes a new introduction about modern-day perceptions of the Islamic world. Rana Kabbani is a poet and translator of modern Arabic poetry. She was born in Damascus in 1958 and brought up in New York City and Djakarta.

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19th century,art history,arts music and photography,asia,european,far east,history,history and criticism,humanities,literature, Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myths of Orient, A provocative and appropriately subversive book."—The New York TimesIn travel books and Orientalist painting, the Victorian concept of an erotic East as a grand harem with endless potential for pleasure and perversion fueled romantic imaginations, art, and commerce. These racial and sexual stereotypes became vital to imperial designs.In Imperial Fictions, Rana Kabbani unravels the erotic fantasies and myths that the West has developed about the East over the ages.Includes a new introduction about modern-day perceptions of the Islamic world.Rana Kabbani is a poet and translator of modern Arabic poetry. She was born in Damascus in 1958 and brought up in New York City and Djakarta.

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Unravels Western fantasies and myths about the East which were woven over the ages.This work offers an analysis of Europe's fabricated Orient, as expressed in its writings and illustrated in its paintings.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Bookbarn International, Somerset, Bristol, [RE:5].
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Bookbarn International [11757], Bristol, SOM, United Kingdom.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Biblion Antiquariat [812217], Zürich, ZH, Switzerland.
Basingstoke [u.A.], Macmillan, 1986. IX, 166 S. Ill. OPp., OU. Sprache: Englisch.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Jenhams, Dundee, [RE:5].
Hardcover.