Orientalism, gender, and the Jews: Literary and artistic transformations of European national discourses

Ulrike Brunotte (Editor), Anna-Dorothea Ludewig (Editor), Axel Stähler (Editor)

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Abstract

Aims and Scope

Originating in the collaboration of the international Research Network "Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism" (RENGOO), this collection of essays proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to colonialism and Orientalism. The network?’s collaborative research addresses imaginative and aesthetic rather than sociological questions with particular focus on the function of gender and sexuality in literary, scholarly and artistic transformations of Orientalist images. RENGOO’s first publication explores the ways in which stereotypes of the external and internal Other intertwine. With its interrogation of the roles assumed in this interplay by gender, processes of sexualization, and aesthetic formations, the volume suggests new directions to the interdisciplinary study of gender, antisemitism, and Orientalism.
Original languageEnglish
PublisherDe Gruyter
Number of pages350
ISBN (Print)9783110339031, 9783110339109, 311033903X, 3110339102
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Publication series

SeriesEuropäisch-jüdische Studien - Beiträge
Volume23
ISSN2192-9602

Keywords

  • Mizrahim
  • Jews
  • Europe
  • HISTORY

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