Book description
Originating in the collaboration of the international Research Network “Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism” (RENGOO), this collection of essays proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to colonialism and Orientalism. The network’s collaborative research addresses imaginative and aesthetic rather than sociological questions with particular focus on the function of gender and sexuality in literary, scholarly and artistic transformations of Orientalist images. RENGOO’s first publication explores the ways in which stereotypes of the external and internal Other intertwine. With its interrogation of the roles assumed in this interplay by gender, processes of sexualization, and aesthetic formations, the volume suggests new directions to the interdisciplinary study of gender, antisemitism, and Orientalism.
Table of contents
- Europäisch-jüdische Studien Beiträge
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews - Literary and Artistic Transformations of European National Discourses
- Asians in Europe - Reading German-Jewish History through a Postcolonial Lens
- Prussians, Jews, Egyptians? - Berlin Jewish Salonières around 1800 and Their Guests. Discursive Constructions of Equality and Otherness
- “Good to Think” - (Re)Conceptualizing German-Jewish Orientalism
- Ephraim Moses Lilien - The Figure of the “Beautiful Jewess,” the Orient, the Bible, and Zionism
- Zionism, Colonialism, and the German Empire - Herzl’s Gloves and Mbwapwa’s Umbrella
- Kafka’s “Schakale und Araber” and the Question of Genre - Gleichnis, Tiergeschichte, or dialektisches Bild?
- Desire, Excess, and Integration - Orientalist Fantasies, Moral Sentiments, and the Place of Jews in German Society as Portrayed in Films of the Weimar Republic
- Jewish Drag - The Ostjude as Anti-Zionist Hero in Arnold Zweig’s De Vriendt kehrt heim
- Re-Orientalizing the Jew - Zionist and Contemporary Israeli Masculinities
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“All Jews are womanly, but no women are Jews.” - The “Femininity” Game of Deception: Female Jew, femme fatale Orientale, and belle Juive
- Jewish Cultural Studies, Feminism, and Queer Theory
- Between the Poles of Oriental Femininity and Jewishness: the “Beautiful Jewess”
- Salome: femme fatale Orientale or belle Juive?
- Oscar Wilde’s and Maud Allan’s Salome as aFigure of the Third
- The Psychoanalytical Theory of Femininity and the Omission of the “Jewish female” from Early Scholarly Discourse
- The Trace of Repression of the Jewish Woman in Freud’s Psychoanalysis
- Judith or the Taboo of Virginity
- Between Orientalization and Self-Orientalization - Remarks on the Image of the “Beautiful Jewess” in Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-Century European Literature
- To See or Not to See - The Gaze and Gender in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Cultures
- Veils in Action - The “Oriental Other” and Its Performative Deconstruction in Modern Fashion and Art
- Embodied Protest - Nakedness and the Partition of Gazes
- Works Cited
- List of Contributors
- Index
Product information
- Title: Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2014
- Publisher(s): De Gruyter Oldenbourg
- ISBN: 9783110395532
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