Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myths of Orient by Rana Kabbani

Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myths of Orient

Rana Kabbani

256 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
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In 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...

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