Desert Songs: Western Images of Morocco and Moroccan Images of the West (Margins of Literature (Dis))

By John R. Maier

Book Overview

Examines American and Middle Eastern texts in studies of Orientalism and Occidentalism, and argues for a new approach to cultural studies that incorporates a wider variety of materials.

In an unusual approach to cultural studies, John Maier examines a wide variety of modern Western and Eastern texts. He brings together very different forms of cultural production: modern and postmodern fiction and folktales, advertising copy and oral histories, travel literature, and ethnographic studies. Many academic disciplines are also juxtaposed-literature and literary theory, linguistics, history, psychoanalysis, sociology, film studies, women's studies, and anthropology-largely because they have themselves been transformed by the cultural questions raised here.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791430170
• ISBN13: 9780791430170
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.0" x 6.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher