Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews : : Literary and Artistic Transformations of European National Discourses / / ed. by Ulrike Brunotte, Anna-Dorothea Ludewig, Axel Stähler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Braun, Christina von,; Brunotte, Ulrike,; Dornhof, Sarah,; Frübis, Hildegard,; Geller, Jay,; Ludewig, Anna-Dorothea,; Lund, Hannah Lotte,; Peleg, Yaron,; Petzer, Tatjana,; Plapp, Laurel,; Rohde, Achim,; Stähler, Axel,; Wildmann, Daniel,; Wittler, Kathrin,
• HerausgeberIn: Brunotte, Ulrike,; Ludewig, Anna-Dorothea,; Stähler, Axel ,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2014]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge : Herausgegeben vom Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Kooperation mit dem Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg , 23
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

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 networkR04;’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

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews -- Asians in Europe -- Prussians, Jews, Egyptians? -- “Good to Think” -- Ephraim Moses Lilien -- Zionism, Colonialism, and the German Empire -- Kafka’s “Schakale und Araber” and the Question of Genre -- Desire, Excess, and Integration -- Jewish Drag -- Re-Orientalizing the Jew -- “All Jews are womanly, but no women are Jews.” -- Between Orientalization and Self-Orientalization -- To See or Not to See -- Veils in Action -- Embodied Protest -- Works Cited -- List of Contributors -- Index