Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1. Detourism: The Orientalism of Amalia Nizzoliâ#x80;#x99;s Egyptian Memoirs -- 2. Hygiene in the Harem: The Orientalism of Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso -- 3. Male Masquerade in Mecca: Passing and Posing in Nineteenth-Century Egypt -- 4. Muslim in Milan: The Orientalisms of Leda Rafanelli -- Epilogue: Divorce Islamic Style: Passing and Posing as Muslim and Tunisian in Postcolonial Italy -- Works Cited
Summary
This is the first monograph in English to address Orientalism in the writings of Italian travellers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to do against a backdrop of comparative reference to works in English and French that preceded or were contemporary to them
Notes
Acknowledgments Preface Chapter One: Detourism: The Orientalism of Amalia Nizzoli's Egyptian Memoirs Chapter Two: Hygiene in the Harem: The Orientalism of Cristina di Belgiojoso Chapter Three: Male Masquerade in Mecca Chapter Four: Muslim in Milan: The Orientalisms of Leda Rafanelli Epilogue: Divorce Islamic Style: Passing and Posing as Muslim and Tunisian in Post-colonial Italy Works Cited
