{"product_id":"imperial-fictions-europes-myths-of-orient","title":"Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myths of Orient","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Admirably pinpoints those aspects of the West's imaginative involvement with the East which are still painful to own up to fully.' The Sunday Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A provocative and appropriately subversive book.'-The New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn travel books and Orientalist painting, the Victorian concept of an erotic East as a grand harem with endless potential for pleasure and perversion fueled romantic imaginations, art, and commerce. These racial and sexual stereotypes became vital to imperial designs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Imperial Fictions, Rana Kabbani unravels the erotic fantasies and myths that the West has developed about the East over the ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes a new introduction about modern-day perceptions of the Islamic world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRana Kabbani is a poet and translator of modern Arabic poetry. She was born in Damascus in 1958 and brought up in New York City and Djakarta.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Saqi Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67712615317824,"sku":"10711","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1003\/6664\/7616\/files\/imperial-fictions-europe-s-myths-of-orient-102_15446324-c07c-4f9c-838d-e000672dc1ed.jpg?v=1791355529","url":"https:\/\/jarirbooksusa.com\/ar\/products\/imperial-fictions-europes-myths-of-orient","provider":"Jarir Books USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}