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Author:   Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones (Richmond - The American International University in London) ,  Mary Roberts (University of Sydney)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9781405116886

ISBN 10:   1405116889
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   20 September 2005
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Series Editor's Preface. List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Visualising Culture across the Edges of Empire. (Mary Roberts and Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones). 1. Commemorating the Empire: From Algiers to Damascus. (Zeynep Çelik). 2. Out of the Earth, Egypt's Statue of Liberty?. (Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby). 3. Cultural Crossings: Sartorial Adventures, Satiric Narratives and the Question of Indigenous Agency in Nineteenth-Century Europe and the Near East. (Mary Roberts). 4. ""Oriental"" Femininity as Cultural Commodity: Authorship, Authority and Authenticity. (Reina Lewis). 5. The Sweet Waters of Asia: Representing Difference/Differencing Representation in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul. (Frederick N. Bohrer). 6. The Work of Translation: Turkish Modernism and the ""Generation of 1914"". (Alastair Wright). 7. Stolen or Shared: Ancient Egypt at the Petrie Museum. (Sally MacDonald). 8. Andalusia in the Time of the Moors: Regret and Colonial Presence in Paris, 1900. (Roger Benjamin). Bibliography (Hannah Williams). Index."

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A pioneering collection of essays that offers a truly transnational approach to cross-cultural exchange. With great clarity and imagination, Edges of Empire forces us to re-think Orientalism both historically and politically. Michael Hatt, Yale University

Author Information

Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones is Professor of Art History and Provost at Richmond, The American International University in London. She is the author of (Re)Forming Identities: Intercultural Education and the Visual Arts (1998). Mary Roberts is the John Schaeffer Lecturer in British Art at the University of Sydney. She has co-edited two books: Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography (2002) and Refracting Vision: Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried (2000).

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