This provides a commentary on images, specifically on a series of French postcards depicting mainly eroticized "scenes from Algerian life" under... Show moreThis provides a commentary on images, specifically on a series of French postcards depicting mainly eroticized "scenes from Algerian life" under colonial rule during the first three decades of this century (which Alloula calls the "Golden Age of the colonial postcard"). The aim is to address, to some extent create, a new audience, one capable of seeing through the immediate scene of the images in order to view the machinery of colonialism at work, behind the scene. Edward Said has cited The Colonial Harem as an "excellent example" of the kind of post-colonial text that "open[s] the [Western] culture to experiences of the Other which have remained 'outside' (and have been repressed or framed in a context of confrontational hostility) the norms manufactured by 'insiders' and that "[t]he pictorial capture of colonized people by colonizer" is made intelligible for an audience of modem European readers" ("Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies and Community"). This view, by no means unanimous,) is nonetheless roughly accurate in at least its most general point: Alloula does intend to bring the "outside" closer to the "inside" and, in doing so, to reverse the distinction by presenting not only a critique of political "capture," but a counter-image of resistance as well. The orient as stereotype and phantasm -- Women from the outside: obstacle and transparency -- Women's prisons -- Women's quarters -- Couples -- The figures of the harem: dress and jewelry -- Inside the harem: The rituals -- Song and dance: Almehs and bayaderes -- Oriental Sapphism -- The colonial harem: images of a suberoticism. Malek Alloula ; translation by Myrna Godzich and Wlad Godzich ; introduction by Barbara Harlow. Translation of: Le harem colonial. Main Heritage Compact General HQ1791.5 .A7613 1986 Reference Item-ID: i24475099 BIB-ID: 2555373 Includes bibliographical references (page 135). Show less
Women, Women--Africa, North--Pictorial works, Peasants, Peasants--Africa, North, Clothing and dress, Clothing and dress--Bedouins
Plate from the book "Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the Original Correspondence in the Possession of the Family of... Show morePlate from the book "Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the Original Correspondence in the Possession of the Family of the late Richard Tully, Esq." (British Consul in Tripoli from 1783 to 1793) printed in London by Henry Colburn in 1817. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Main Heritage Compact General HC.GM.00011 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25297727 BIB-ID: 2707655 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (N. 12003 and 1113) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (N. 12003 and 1113) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the bottom of the print. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0040-0001 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26314885 BIB-ID: 2811014 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (N. 12003 and 1113) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (N. 12003 and 1113) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the bottom of the print. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0033-0002 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26313492 BIB-ID: 2810909 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (N. 14786 and 1486) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (N. 14786 and 1486) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the bottom of the print. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0033-0003 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26313509 BIB-ID: 2810910 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (13191 and 1268) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the bottom... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (13191 and 1268) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the bottom of the print. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0040-0003a 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26315129 BIB-ID: 2811033 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (13191 and 1268) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the bottom... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (13191 and 1268) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the bottom of the print. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0040-0003b 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26315130 BIB-ID: 2811033 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (13242 and 1319) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the bottom... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (13242 and 1319) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the bottom of the print. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0040-0004 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26315154 BIB-ID: 2811034 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (N.7024 and 661) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the bottom... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (N.7024 and 661) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the bottom of the print. On the negative is also written "Татарка N. 184" in cursive. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0040-0005 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26315178 BIB-ID: 2811037 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (N. 306 and 5401) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the bottom... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (N. 306 and 5401) and titled on the negative in Cyrillic at the bottom of the print. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0040-0006 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26315191 BIB-ID: 2811038 Show less
