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
Harems, Description and travel, Description and travel, DR427 .B45 1858
par Mme la princesse de Belgiojoso. Main Heritage Shelves General DR427 .B45 1858 Book Item-ID: i22250979 BIB-ID: 2383557 Show morepar Mme la princesse de Belgiojoso. Main Heritage Shelves General DR427 .B45 1858 Book Item-ID: i22250979 BIB-ID: 2383557 Show less
Divisé en cinq parties: 1° une Relation du Japon et de la cause de la persécution des chrestiens dans ses isles... 2° Relation de ce qui s'est... Show moreDivisé en cinq parties: 1° une Relation du Japon et de la cause de la persécution des chrestiens dans ses isles... 2° Relation de ce qui s'est passé dans la négociation des députez qui ont esté en Perse et aux Indes, tant de la part du Roy que de la Compagnie françoise pour l'establissement du commerce. 3° Observations sur le commerce des Indes orientales... 4° Relation nouvelle et singulière du royaume de Tunquin... 5° Histoire de la conduite des Hollandois en Asie. de J.-B. Tavernier,... qui n'ont point esté mis dans ses Six premiers voyages. Main Heritage Shelves General DS411.5 .T38 1679 Book Item-ID: i10168552 BIB-ID: 1018491 Show less
Women--Social life and customs, Women--Turkey--Social life and customs, Harems, Harems--Turkey
The photograph shows Ottoman guards and the Imperial Harem at the Sweet Waters of Europe or Kiathane. During spring the Sultan used to authorize... Show moreThe photograph shows Ottoman guards and the Imperial Harem at the Sweet Waters of Europe or Kiathane. During spring the Sultan used to authorize these outings that were very popular among the Ottoman and Europen elites in Istanbul. The photographs is signed, numbered (998) and titled in the negative. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0051 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24466967 BIB-ID: 2537234 The Abdullah Fréres studio opened in Istanbul in 1856. The Armenian brothers became official royal photographers in 1863 and in 1866, at the invitation of the Khedive of Egypt, they opened a branch in Cairo that was closed in 1895. At the end of 1900 they sold the Istanbul studio to Sébah and Joaillier. Show less
