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Colonial Visual Representations of the 'Femmes d'Alger'

Colonial Visual Representations of the 'Femmes d'Alger' © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI 10.1163/187398608X317432 Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 1 (2008) 80–93 www.brill.nl/mjcc MEJCC Colonial Visual Representations of the ‘Femmes d’Alger’ Zahia Smail Salhi University of Leeds Email: llczs@leeds.ac.uk Keywords Representation; Orientalism; Post-colonial Discourses; Algeria; Gender Th e French military conquest of Algeria in 1830 was followed by a steady fl ow of French artists and writers, whose aim was to discover an Orient situated only a few miles across the Mediterranean Sea. Th e fi rst French contact with the ‘African Orient’ was made by Napoleon’s soldiers during their occupation of Egypt. Th ey fi rst went out to Egypt with an obsession to fi nd women which occupied much of their imagination and their energy. Hopwood explains, ‘they went with a rather naive, if not fatuous, assumption that women would be easily available in harems and elsewhere, ideas which must have been picked up from popular mythology in France’ (Hopwood 1999: 75). Th e returning soldiers drew a distorted picture of the place where they had served, presenting it as a highly exotic setting. 1 Th e French soldiers who served in Algeria during the fi rst few years of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication Brill

Colonial Visual Representations of the 'Femmes d'Alger'

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© 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1873-9857
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10.1163/187398608X317432
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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI 10.1163/187398608X317432 Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 1 (2008) 80–93 www.brill.nl/mjcc MEJCC Colonial Visual Representations of the ‘Femmes d’Alger’ Zahia Smail Salhi University of Leeds Email: llczs@leeds.ac.uk Keywords Representation; Orientalism; Post-colonial Discourses; Algeria; Gender Th e French military conquest of Algeria in 1830 was followed by a steady fl ow of French artists and writers, whose aim was to discover an Orient situated only a few miles across the Mediterranean Sea. Th e fi rst French contact with the ‘African Orient’ was made by Napoleon’s soldiers during their occupation of Egypt. Th ey fi rst went out to Egypt with an obsession to fi nd women which occupied much of their imagination and their energy. Hopwood explains, ‘they went with a rather naive, if not fatuous, assumption that women would be easily available in harems and elsewhere, ideas which must have been picked up from popular mythology in France’ (Hopwood 1999: 75). Th e returning soldiers drew a distorted picture of the place where they had served, presenting it as a highly exotic setting. 1 Th e French soldiers who served in Algeria during the fi rst few years of

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Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2008

Keywords: ORIENTALISM; GENDER; REPRESENTATION; POST-COLONIAL DISCOURSES; ALGERIA

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