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Author Maier, John R.

Title Desert songs : western images of Morocco and Moroccan images of the West / John Maier
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 1996

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 MELB  964 Mai/Dsw  AVAILABLE
Description xix, 354 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series SUNY series, the margins of literature
SUNY series, the margins of literature.
Contents Ch. 1. Asia under the Sign of Woman: The Feminization of the Orient in The Aeneid -- Ch. 2. Silence and Ecstasy: Watching the Sufis Dance -- Ch. 3. Two Fathers General -- Ch. 4. Jane Bowles and the Semi-Oriental Woman -- Ch. 5. Penetrating the Ramparts: Morocco in the Fiction of Paul Bowles -- Ch. 6. Elizabeth Fernea's Moroccan Pilgrimage -- Ch. 7. Insider Views: Five Moroccan Writers -- Ch. 8. Two Moroccan Storytellers in Paul Bowles's Five Eyes: Larbi Layachi and Ahmed Yacoubi -- Ch. 9. Tented Visions: Woman as Hero/as Victim -- Ch. 10. In the Service of Aisha Qandisha
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-337) and index
Subject East and West.
SUBJECT Europe http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045631 -- Foreign public opinion, Moroccan
Morocco http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79069715 -- Foreign public opinion. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005785
United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78095330 -- Foreign public opinion, Moroccan
LC no. 96004822
ISBN 0791430170 (alk. paper)
0791430189 (paperback: alk. paper)