Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel, and the Ottoman Harem
Rethinking Orientalism: Women, Travel, and the Ottoman Harem
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重新思考东方主义：女性、旅行和奥斯曼后宫
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10.5040/9780755611744
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2004
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Reina Lewis
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Reina Lewis
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在澳大利亚人权委员会和Leverhulme信托基金的赠款支持下，这本专著（2006年翻译成土耳其语）是长期从事性别和东方主义工作的成果，为若干相关领域提供了新的主要材料和分析框架。虽然被压迫，但高度性感，穆斯林后宫的女性囚犯的数字已被理解为西方东方主义幻想的支点（Yegenoglu 1998; Zonana 1993），很少有人注意到自我认同的“东方”妇女的声音。《重新思考东方主义》提供了第一本关于20世纪之交奥斯曼妇女英语书籍的专著，从而弥补了这一缺陷。认为非西方来源值得同样严格的关键关注，将被定向为规范文本，我的主要研究奥斯曼妇女的英语写作表明，他们能够干预东方文化与自我意识的能力，操纵文化代码，这通常不是归因于女性，沉默的女人的后宫刻板印象。该项目扩大了中东妇女历史发展领域可用的主要材料的范围（Frierson 2000; Baron 1994; Booth 2001），并通过将表演性性别身份理论融入非西方文化文本的历史化批判性审查，改变了分析妇女来源的方式。我对欧洲、土耳其和美国的出版商档案、文学评论和作者通信的研究意味着，我可以对西方中产阶级后宫文学的生产和接受条件进行唯物主义分析。我对奥斯曼作者如何干预当地关于女性和社会解放的辩论的分析，挑战了后殖民研究中出现的一些正统观点。
该项目促使在国际上发表了主旨发言和全体会议文件，包括在维也纳、柏林、科威特、美国（塔尔萨、麻省理工学院）、多伦多、赫尔辛基、特里尔、利默里克。
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Supported by grants from the AHRC, and Leverhulme Trust, this monograph (translated into Turkish, 2006) was the culmination of a longstanding body of work concerned with gender and Orientalism, and it has contributed new primary material and analytic frameworks for a number of related fields. While the figure of the oppressed, yet highly sexualised, female inmate of the Muslim harem has been understood as the pivot of western Orientalist fantasy (Yegenoglu 1998; Zonana 1993), little attention has been paid to the voices of self identified ‘Oriental’ women. Rethinking Orientalism remedies this by providing the first monograph on English-language books by Ottoman women from the turn of the twentieth century. Arguing that non-Western sources deserve critical attention of the same rigour as would be directed as canonical texts, my primary research on Ottoman women’s writing in English demonstrates that they were able to intervene in Orientalist culture with a self-conscious ability to manipulate cultural codes that is not usually attributed to the inferiorised, silenced woman of the harem stereotype. The project extended the range of primary material available to the developing field of middle-eastern women’s history (Frierson 2000; Baron 1994; Booth 2001) and changed the ways in which women’s sources are analysed by integrating theories of performative gender identity into the historicised critical examination of non-Western cultural texts. My research into publishers’ archives, literary reviews and author correspondence in Europe, Turkey and the USA meant that I could construct a materialist analysis of the conditions of production and reception of middlebrow Western harem literature. My analysis of how the Ottoman authors intervened in local debates about female and social emancipation challenges some of the orthodoxies that have emerged in postcolonial studies.
The project has prompted international keynotes and plenary papers, including Vienna, Berlin, Kuwait, USA (Tulsa, MIT), Toronto, Helsinki, Trier, Limerick.