Desert Songs: Western Images of Morocco and Moroccan Images of the West

By John R. Maier

Examines American and Middle Eastern texts in studies of Orientalism and Occidentalism, and argues for a new approach to cultural studies that incorporates a wider variety of materials.

In an unusual approach to cultural studies, John Maier examines a wide variety of modern Western and Eastern texts. He brings together very different forms of cultural production: modern and postmodern fiction and folktales, advertising copy and oral histories, travel literature, and ethnographic studies. Many academic disciplines are also juxtaposed-literature and literary theory, linguistics, history, psychoanalysis, sociology, film studies, women's studies, and anthropology-largely because they have themselves been transformed by the cultural questions raised here.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791430189
• ISBN13: 9780791430187
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher