LA PLACE DE LA FEMME SYRIENNE DANS LES RÉCITS DE VOYAGE DU XIXe SIÈCLE
THE PLACE OF THE SYRIAN WOMAN IN THE 19TH CENTURY TRAVEL LITERATURE
Author(s): Abdulmalek Al-ZaumSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: imagology; otherness; colonisation; cultural aspects; Morocco;
Summary/Abstract: The paper focuses on the role of the Middle-Eastern woman in 19th-century travel literature. Middle-Eastern women, particularly Syrian women, feature prominently in the travel writing of the period. For some travel writers, they gave rise to reverie, while for others, they embodied otherness and exoticism, fuelling the romantic aesthetic and sexual fantasies. Their role in travel literature is thus twofold: symbolic and ideological.
Journal: Analele Universităţii din Craiova. Seria Ştiinţe Filologice. Limbi şi literaturi romanice.
- Issue Year: XXV/2021
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 149-162
- Page Count: 14
- Language: French