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Isabelle Eberhardt and North Africa

Author : Lynda Chouiten
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739185934
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Isabelle Eberhardt and North Africa written by Lynda Chouiten and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a woman who traversed the North African Orient in male costume, who spoke Arabic as well as French, and who professed Islam while transgressing many of its instructions, Isabelle Eberhardt seems to fit within Mikhail Bakhtin’s definition of the carnivalesque as the impulse to blend that which is usually kept separate by artificial boundaries and hierarchies. Nevertheless, this study demonstrates that her evolution in the Maghreb is carnivalesque only in appearance. Despite her transvestism, the writer left unquestioned the traditional definitions of masculinity and femininity; it is her subscription to the patriarchal equation of maleness with power and womanhood with weakness which makes her borrow a masculine identity. In a similar way, her appropriation of several elements of Oriental culture does not prevent her from reproducing age-old Orientalist stereotypes. As portrayed in her texts, the natives are either aestheticized as picturesque figures from a bygone age or denigrated as uncivilized, dark-minded creatures. And because Orientalism, as Edward Said has famously argued, is but a textual manifestation of colonialism, Eberhardt’s Orientalist texts make her the accomplice of the colonialist project, a project which she also served by acting as a mediator between General Lyautey and native tribes. In discussing Eberhardt’s involvement in the colonial mission and her perpetuation of the patriarchal and Orientalist traditions, this study questions the image of rebel-figure that is usually assigned to her. Instead, it shows the writer’s literary and political gestures to be embedded in a marked quest for empowerment through the double (literary and political) conquest of the Orient.

In the Shadow of Islam

Author : Isabelle Eberhardt
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0720616697
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of Islam written by Isabelle Eberhardt and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary evocation of the desert and its people by a woman who dressed as a man in order to travel alone and unimpeded throughout North Africa In 1897 Isabelle Eberhardt, at the age of 20, left an already unconventional life in Geneva for the Morroccan frontier. Gripped by spiritual restlessness and the desire to break free from the confinements of her society she traveled into the desert, and into the heart of Islam. Her experiences inspired a profound self-examination, and a book that today is regarded as one of the true classics of travel writing. In the current political climate, it is also a book uncannily current in its treatment of the culture of Islam in North Africa. One of the most astonishing travel documents of all time, this book is also a feminist classic in its own right.

The Nomad

Author : Isabelle Eberhardt
Publisher : Interlink Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Nomad written by Isabelle Eberhardt and published by Interlink Books. This book was released on 2003-01-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born the illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic Russian emigree, Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was a cross-dresser and sensualist, an experienced drug-taker and a transgressor of boundaries: a woman who reinvented herself as a man, wandering the Sahara on horseback.

Isabelle

Author : Annette Kobak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Isabelle written by Annette Kobak and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Isabelle

Author : Annette Kobak
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Isabelle written by Annette Kobak and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1988 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated biography of Isabelle Eberhardt who, although she died young, became a legend in her own lifetime. Using her diaries and many previously unpublished letters, the author tells of her childhood in Geneva, her adventures in the North African desert and her identification with the Arabs. The film rights of this book have been sold.

Departures

Author : Isabelle Eberhardt
Publisher : City Lights Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780872862883
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Departures written by Isabelle Eberhardt and published by City Lights Publishers. This book was released on 1994-12-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As usual, Isabelle Eberhardt's stormy love affair with the Algerian desert sets the physical and emotional scene in this collection of short stories. Written in French in the late 1800s and translated by Karim Hamdy and Laura Rice, her characters...

Writings from the Sand, Volume 1

Author : Isabelle Eberhardt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803216114
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Writings from the Sand, Volume 1 written by Isabelle Eberhardt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the author's works offering a view of the culture and people of French Algeria rarely seen by outsiders.

The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt

Author : Cecily Mackworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Destiny of Isabelle Eberhardt written by Cecily Mackworth and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Prisoner of Dunes

Author : Isabelle Eberhardt
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Prisoner of Dunes written by Isabelle Eberhardt and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitherto unpublished in English, this book describes Eberhardt's wanderings from Marseilles to Tunis and Algeria from 1899 to 1904. She spent much of her short life in North Africa, where she was converted to Islam and learned to speak fluent Arabic.

Writings from the Sand, Volume 1

Author : Isabelle Eberhardt
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803216112
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Writings from the Sand, Volume 1 written by Isabelle Eberhardt and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland, Isabelle Eberhardt became a rebel at an early age. She dressed like a man so she could have access to areas forbidden to women, smoked in public, and scandalized Genevan society. Already multilingual (French, German, and Russian), she began studying Arabic language and Islamic culture and eventually converted to Islam and joined a Qadiriyya Sufi brotherhood. Eberhardt traveled throughout North Africa and wrote about her experiences in short stories, journals, and reflections. She married an Algerian and led a legendary and stormy life that included subversive political anarchism, the mysticism of Islam, numerous love affairs, and most importantly, writing unmatched by her contemporaries. Writings from the Sand, Volume 1, at once the document of a remarkable life and a literary treasure, appears here in English for the first time. Volume 1, including journals, diary entries, and observations of life in North Africa, offers a view of the culture and people of French Algeria rarely seen by outsiders—the peasants, prostitutes, mystics, criminals, and other marginalized members of a colonized society. This translation brings to life a brilliant woman ahead of her time while also raising questions—about North African history, colonialism, gender representation, and writing—that resonate in our day.

The Oblivion Seekers

Author : Isabelle Eberhardt
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780720613384
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book The Oblivion Seekers written by Isabelle Eberhardt and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: San Francisco: City Lights, 1975; London: Owen, 1988.

THE WILDER SHORES OF LOVE

Author : Lesley Blanch
Publisher : BookBlast ePublishing
ISBN 13 : 0993092799
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book THE WILDER SHORES OF LOVE written by Lesley Blanch and published by BookBlast ePublishing. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideal reading for anyone looking for adventure and romance in unusual settings. Lesley Blanch writes about four strong women in The Wilder Shores of Love. Turning East, away from 19th Century Europe and conventional living, they found emancipation through escape and adventure. Isabel Burton married the Arabist and explorer Richard Burton; they worked together on his translation of A Thousand and One Nights; Jane Digby el-Mezrab (Lady Ellenborough, the society beauty), had four husbands and numerous lovers, including Honoré de Balzac and King Ludwig I of Bavaria. She ended up living in the Syrian desert with a young Bedouin chieftain; Aimée Dubucq de Rivery was a French convent girl who was captured at sea by pirates and became the consort of Sultan Abdul Hamid I; and Isabelle Eberhardt was a Swiss linguist who went to Algeria where she lived among tribesmen in the Sahara, converted to Islam, and dressed as a man. ANAIS NIN — “I read The Wilder Shores of Love by Lesley Blanch and became completely devoted to her writing. It is a book of great vitality, superb storytelling. She is herself Scheherazade telling about four remarkable women. I was fascinated by the charm and with which she tells biographical facts. The four women became my heroines. I read the book several times. My admiration for her was total. The Wilder Shores of Love would have made colourful and entrancing films.” CARSON McCULLERS — “The Wilder Shores of Love is a book of such radiance and strength.” FREYA STARK — “A book as excellent as its title.” WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD — “Love, wanderlust, faraway places – all that Romance implies – make up this delicious book.” NEW YORKER — “Four seething but most enjoyable studies in headlong nonconformity.” DAILY TELEGRAPH — “Enthralling to read.”

Isolated Experiences

Author : James Brusseau
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791497879
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Isolated Experiences written by James Brusseau and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-01-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By extending Gilles Deleuze's philosophy through diverse literary tracts, this book develops an account of what it means to be different and enters important contemporary debates about identity and the nature of solitude. At the same time, the book elaborates a limited philosophy. From unusual writings and rare human experiences, James Brusseau forges compelling understandings that scrupulously preserve his subjects' irregularities. The resulting philosophic narrative remains strictly localized; it elucidates narrow bands of experience and refuses broadening generalizations. The book's first section rigorously elaborates Deleuze's pioneering notion of difference. The second part conceives certain individuals as embodying difference and then employs the conception to elude difficulties blocking recent work on subjectivity. Part three combines insights from the first two parts with Isabelle Eberhardt's North African travel journals. In Eberhardt, Brusseau finds sexualities and a solitude that only Deleuze's unique notion of difference can explain. An energetic interaction between philosophy and literature drives this book. Brusseau weaves back and forth between the genres, engaging diverse literatures not only to embody but also to refine his philosophic positions. The literary authors he discusses range from Shakespeare and Fitzgerald to Borges, Bataille, and Eberhardt.

The Glamour of Strangeness

Author : Jamie James
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374711321
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Glamour of Strangeness written by Jamie James and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early days of steamship travel, artists stifled by the culture of their homelands fled to islands, jungles, and deserts in search of new creative and emotional frontiers. Their flight inspired a unique body of work that doesn't fit squarely within the Western canon, yet may be some of the most original statements we have about the range and depth of the artistic imagination. Focusing on six principal subjects, Jamie James locates "a lost national school" of artists who left their homes for the unknown. There is Walter Spies, the devastatingly handsome German painter who remade his life in Bali; Raden Saleh, the Javanese painter who found fame in Europe; Isabelle Eberhardt, a Russian-Swiss writer who roamed the Sahara dressed as an Arab man; the American experimental filmmaker Maya Deren, who went to Haiti and became a committed follower of voodoo. From France, Paul Gauguin left for Tahiti; and Victor Segalen, a naval doctor, poet, and novelist, immersed himself in classical Chinese civilization in imperial Peking. In The Glamour of Strangeness, James evokes these extraordinary lives in portraits that bring the transcultural artist into sharp relief. Drawing on his own career as a travel writer and years of archival research uncovering previously unpublished letters and journals, James creates a penetrating study of the powerful connection between art and the exotic.

Memoirs of a Dervish

Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : Profile Books
ISBN 13 : 1847654045
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Dervish written by Robert Irwin and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1964, while a military coup was taking place and tanks were rolling through the streets of Algiers, Robert Irwin set off for Algeria in search of Sufi enlightenment. There he entered a world of marvels and ecstasy, converted to Islam and received an initiation as a faqir. He learnt the rituals of Islam in North Africa and he studied Arabic in London. He also pursued more esoteric topics under a holy fool possessed of telepathic powers. A series of meditations on the nature of mystical experience run through this memoir. But political violence, torture, rock music, drugs, nightmares, Oxbridge intellectuals and first love and its loss are all part of this strange story from the 1960s.

My Journey to Lhasa

Author : Alexandra David-Néel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book My Journey to Lhasa written by Alexandra David-Néel and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Century of Locusts

Author : Malika Mokeddem
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803283060
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Century of Locusts written by Malika Mokeddem and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What first appears as a tiny moving shadow, no bigger than a fly, on the dazzling horizon slowly reveals itself as the grim shape of violence and death; in the destruction left behind?the mother?s broken body, the hidden child, the crying infant?begins the story of wandering and loss, of exile and desolation that sounds all the sad echoes of disappearing Bedouin life. Set in the first half of the twentieth century, Malika Mokeddem?s Century of Locusts combines the magic of exquisitely wrought desert landscapes, the intrigue of Bedouin tales of madmen and poets, and the personal pain of exile and isolation to evoke a way of life destroyed by the scourge of settler colonialism. The book tells the braided tales of those left to resist: a wandering poet and his mute, stricken daughter, Yasmine; the lunatic Majnoun; and Majnoun's murderous sidekick, Hassan, who twitches and squints with malevolence, lurking along the story?s shadowy borders. Rippling ever outward with allusions and echoes, the tale eventually encompasses Algeria?s legendary past, its colonial injustices, and its uncertain future, even as Mokeddem?s poetry and deft touch confer life and hope on the ravaged body of this desert land.