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Accidental Orientalists : modern Italian travelers in Ottoman lands / Barbara Spackman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Transnational Italian culturesPublication details: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781786948083
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DS62 .A235 2017
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Subject: 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.
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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.

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