Edges of Empire (eBook)

Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones is Professor of Art History and Provost at Richmond, The American International University in London. She is the author of (Re)Forming Identities: Intercultural Education and the Visual Arts (1998). Mary Roberts is the John Schaeffer Lecturer in British Art at the University of Sydney. She has co-edited two books: Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography (2002) and Refracting Vision: Essays on the Writings of Michael Fried (2000).

Series Editor's Preface.

List of Illustrations.

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

Introduction: Visualising Culture across the Edges of
Empire.

(Mary Roberts and Jocelyn Hackforth-Jones).

1. Commemorating the Empire: From Algiers to Damascus.

(Zeynep Çelik).

2. Out of the Earth, Egypt's Statue of Liberty?.

(Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby).

3. Cultural Crossings: Sartorial Adventures, Satiric Narratives
and the Question of Indigenous Agency in Nineteenth-Century Europe
and the Near East. (Mary Roberts).

4. "Oriental" Femininity as Cultural Commodity: Authorship,
Authority and Authenticity. (Reina Lewis).

5. The Sweet Waters of Asia: Representing
Difference/Differencing Representation in Nineteenth-Century
Istanbul. (Frederick N. Bohrer).

6. The Work of Translation: Turkish Modernism and the
"Generation of 1914". (Alastair Wright).

7. Stolen or Shared: Ancient Egypt at the Petrie Museum.

(Sally MacDonald).

8. Andalusia in the Time of the Moors: Regret and Colonial
Presence in Paris, 1900. (Roger Benjamin).

Bibliography (Hannah Williams).

Index.

"A pioneering collection of essays that offers a truly transnational approach to cross-cultural exchange. With great clarity and imagination, Edges of Empire forces us to re-think Orientalism both historically and politically." Michael Hatt, Yale University