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--Social conditions, Women--Algeria--Social conditions--Fiction, Muslim women, Muslim women--Fiction, PQ3989.2.D57 V3713 1999, 843
A novel on the plight of women in the Muslim world. The heroine is a musicologist in Algeria whose husband attempts to blind her for having an... Show moreA novel on the plight of women in the Muslim world. The heroine is a musicologist in Algeria whose husband attempts to blind her for having an affair with a student. The author, who lives in exile, is an Algerian writing under a pseudonym and plays the contradictions of her heroine's existence against the bloody carnage of Carthage, a great civilization to which the Berbers were once compared. The Silence of Writing -- What is Erased in the Heart -- The Siesta -- The Face -- Space, Darkness -- The Dance -- The Absence -- Before, After -- The Goodbye -- Erased in Stone -- The Slave in Tunis -- The Renegade Count -- The Archeologist Lord -- Destruction -- The Secret -- The Stele and the Flames -- The Deported Writer -- Abalessa -- A Silent Desire -- "Fugitive Without Knowing it" -- Arable Woman I -- Of the Mother as Traveler -- Arable Woman II -- Of the Grandmother as a Young Bride -- Arable Woman III -- Of the Mother as Little Girl -- Arable Woman IV -- Of the Narrator in the French Night -- Arable Woman v -- Of the Narrator as an Adolescent -- Arable Woman VI -- Of Desire and its Desert -- Arable Woman VII -- Shadows of Separation -- The Blood of Writing -- Yasmina -- The Blood of Writing--Final. Assia Djebar ; translated by Betsy Wing. Main Heritage Compact General PQ3989.2.D57 V3713 1999 Reference Item-ID: i16875862 BIB-ID: 1578884 Translated from the French. Show less
Women, Women--Middle East--Pictorial works, Prayers (Islam), Prayers (Islam)--Pictorial works
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Written on the front of the card "Villa Victoria. Cairo 17.12.99 These ladies come loaded with good... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. Written on the front of the card "Villa Victoria. Cairo 17.12.99 These ladies come loaded with good wishes from Christmas and the New Year. The gentlemen in the side are praying for our welfare! Yours H.G.". Written on the back of the card: [Addressed to: ] Miss Muagham. Molyneux Park, Tunbridge Well s. England." Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2016.0089-0006 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23703143 BIB-ID: 2524729 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The postcard was printed in Great Britain for the Aden-based publisher A. R. Fernandez. Main... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The postcard was printed in Great Britain for the Aden-based publisher A. R. Fernandez. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2012.0003-0002 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23706284 BIB-ID: 2525758 Show less
The photograph shows a Yemeni woman in traditional dress. Title form item. Date devised by Library staff. The postcard was printed in Nancy (France)... Show moreThe photograph shows a Yemeni woman in traditional dress. Title form item. Date devised by Library staff. The postcard was printed in Nancy (France) by the Imprimeries réunies for the Aden-based publisher K. Arabiantz. The postcard is stamped with a 1 piastre Ottoman postmark on the front and has handwritten notes on the verso, addressed to a woman living in Ville Neuve in France. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2012.0003-0003 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23706296 BIB-ID: 2525759 Show less
With a chapter for children. By Rev. Henry Harris Jessup. Edited by Rev. C.S. Robinson, D.D., & Rev. Isaac Riley. Main Heritage Compact General HQ177... Show moreWith a chapter for children. By Rev. Henry Harris Jessup. Edited by Rev. C.S. Robinson, D.D., & Rev. Isaac Riley. Main Heritage Compact General HQ1777 .J47 1873 Book Item-ID: i10228792 BIB-ID: 1024515 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The postcard was printed in Great Britain for the Aden-based publisher A. R. Fernandez. Main... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The postcard was printed in Great Britain for the Aden-based publisher A. R. Fernandez. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2012.0003-0001 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23693587 BIB-ID: 2523808 Show less
The photograph shows a Arab woman with an Egyptian burqa. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled and numbered... Show moreThe photograph shows a Arab woman with an Egyptian burqa. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled and numbered Serie No. 1150-5. Written on the back of the card "How would you like to wear this sort of veil? Hope you are all having good holidays" [Addressed to: ] Miss. M. E. Yollard c/o Rev. Stevens [...]. St. George. Cobo. Guernsey. Channel Islands. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2016.0089-0012 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23704305 BIB-ID: 2525673 Show less
"This volume contains a selection of short stories from two volumes by Mme. Henriette Celarie. They are sketches more than short stories,... Show more"This volume contains a selection of short stories from two volumes by Mme. Henriette Celarie. They are sketches more than short stories, attempting to show without preamble cross-sections of native Moroccan women's lives, as told to and discovered by the alertly interested wife of a French officer living for years in that country. Each story is rigorously true. Differing perhaps from the usual romantic picture, their flavor of reality can be even more impressive. This is Morocco, static, fluid, potential."--Foreword. The girl possessed of a djinn -- "In the name of Allah I divorce thee" -- A child's kidnapping -- Batoul explains how a woman deceives her husband -- The vengeance of Fatima -- "Asleep in the bosom of its mother" -- An escape from the harem -- Fair Aicha -- The slaves of Caid Omar -- What happened to Mahjoub and the recommendation that had been given him -- In the home of Si Abderrahamen -- Thou hast only to drop this powder into the water he drinks" -- Khadidja's two husbands -- Halima's first marriage -- The Marrakech prisons -- An evening with Si Taher Ben Mohamed -- The Little shepherdess of the Atlas -- Ramadan. translated and adapted by Constance Lily Morris ; from the books of Henriette Celarié ; with pictures by Boris Artzybasheff. Includes glossary. Main Heritage Shelves General PQ2605.E5 A2 1931 Book Item-ID: i15536853 BIB-ID: 2498010 Also issued online. Show less
by Ross Houghton. -. Main Heritage Compact General HQ1170 .H68 1877 Book Item-ID: i10244062 BIB-ID: 1026042 Includes indexes. Show moreby Ross Houghton. -. Main Heritage Compact General HQ1170 .H68 1877 Book Item-ID: i10244062 BIB-ID: 1026042 Includes indexes. Show less
