By Inge E. Boer, Mieke Bal, Bregje Van Eekelen, Patricia Spyer
Desk of Contents: record of Figures Editors Preface creation half I: The functionality of limitations 1. the realm past my Window: Nomads, traveling Theories and the functionality of obstacles 2. Public Violence Hits domestic: Civil struggle and the Destruction of privateness three. doubtful Territories: trip as trade half II: topic out and in of house four. No-Man's-Land? Deserts and the Politics of position five. only a type? Cultural Cross-Dressing 6. Border Fetishism: Negotiable Authenticity half III: putting Inge E. Boer Murat Aydemir: 7. Impressions Of personality: Hari Kunzru s 'The Impressionist' Annelies Moors: eight. From Travelogue to Ethnography and again back? Hilma Granqvist s Writings and pictures Maria Boletsi: nine. among Hospitality and Hostility: Crossing Balkan Borders in Adela Peeva s 'Whose is that this Song?' Begüm Özden Firat: 10.Borders of the artwork international, obstacles of the art: On modern artwork from the Islamic international Isabel Hoving: 11.Giving existence: Inge Boer s Postcolonial conception Bibliography checklist of individuals Index of Names and locations Index of phrases and ideas
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During her childhood, she had cultivated the flower of observation in her garden and then, by an odd osmosis, ratified through a pact sealed with blood, she has become object, thing, matter herself. Fikria, the Moorish intellectual, amused herself by spying without being seen and yet, for months, she was unaware of a frightful plot that was being hatched beneath her room: she was going to become a woman. A woman under a man’s body. She knows now that the process of entering adulthood does not stop with the first flow of menstrual blood, but will result in an arranged marriage, a pact sealed with blood in which she is supposed to be submissive to her future husband.
22 UNCERTAIN TERRITORIES of religion in studies of women in the Muslim world (1990; 1994). She does not hesitate to raise charges against Mernissi and el-Saadawi as well as against Western feminists, indicting their use of a compact set of categories which stereotype women in the Muslim world over and over again. MarieAimée Hélie-Lucas, by contrast, argues that the dichotomy between Western feminism and Third World feminism is false and “prevents women from benefiting from each other’s experiences” (1993: 218).
What emerges from this brief contextualization of ideas is that Said’s categories of travelling theories, mentioned in the introduction, follow a much more complicated texture of criss-crossing movements, where influences and adaptations are not unidirectional. Nor can they be localized solidly within one or another place. Theories travel and one of the results that come with travel is that interpretational practices have to change as well. Thus, boundary negotiation takes place at various levels, which brings me back to Bouraoui’s novel, especially its repeated trope of the epicentre.