Accidental Orientalists : modern Italian travelers in Ottoman lands /

Spackman, Barbara, 1952-

Accidental Orientalists : modern Italian travelers in Ottoman lands / Barbara Spackman. - Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource. - Transnational Italian cultures .

Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One: Detourism: The Orientalism of Amalia Nizzoli's Egyptian Memoirs Chapter Two: Hygiene in the Harem: The Orientalism of Cristina di Belgiojoso Chapter Three: Male Masquerade in Mecca Chapter Four: Muslim in Milan: The Orientalisms of Leda Rafanelli Epilogue: Divorce Islamic Style: Passing and Posing as Muslim and Tunisian in Post-colonial Italy Works Cited.

Includes bibliographies and index.

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of illustrations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface""; ""1. Detourism: The Orientalism of Amalia Nizzoliâ#x80;#x99;s Egyptian Memoirs""; ""2. Hygiene in the Harem: The Orientalism of Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso""; ""3. Male Masquerade in Mecca: Passing and Posing in Nineteenth-Century Egypt""; ""4. Muslim in Milan: The Orientalisms of Leda Rafanelli""; ""Epilogue: Divorce Islamic Style: Passing and Posing as Muslim and Tunisian in Postcolonial Italy""; ""Works Cited""

This is the first monograph in English to address Orientalism in the writings of Italian travellers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to do against a backdrop of comparative reference to works in English and French that preceded or were contemporary to them.



9781786948083

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Italians--History--Middle East--19th century.
Italians--History--Middle East--20th century.


Electronic Books.

DS62 / .A235 2017