Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World

Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World - Paperback

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Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World - Paperback

Orientalism and the Reception of Powerful Women from the Ancient World - Paperback

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by Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Editor), Anja Wieber (Editor), Martin Lindner (Editor)

Why is Cleopatra, a descendent of Alexander the Great, a Ptolemy from a Greek-Macedonian family, in popular imagination an Oriental woman? True, she assumed some aspects of pharaonic imagery in order to rule Egypt, but her Orientalism mostly derives from ancient (Roman) and modern stereotypes: both the Orient and the idea of a woman in power are signs, in the Western tradition, of 'otherness' - and in this sense they can easily overlap and interchange.

This volume investigates how ancient women, and particularly powerful women, such as queens and empresses, have been re-imagined in Western (and not only Western) arts; highlights how this re-imagination and re-visualization is, more often than not, the product of Orientalist stereotypes - even when dealing with women who had nothing to do with Eastern regions; and compares these images with examples of Eastern gaze on the same women. Through the chapters in this volume, readers will discover the similarities and differences in the ways in which women in power were and still are described and decried by their opponents.
ISBN9781350193697
PublisherBloomsbury Academic
GenreHistory and Arts
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages336
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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