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Orientalism Reconsidered: Turkey In Barbara Frischmuth's Das Verschwinden Des Schattens In Der Sonne And Hanne Mede-Flock's Im Schatten Der Mondsichel, Petra Fachinger

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Recent German criticism has demonstrated that the relationships of Austria and Germany with the "Orient" have been more complex than Edward Said's Orientalism makes it appear. Furthermore, Said only touches upon gender issues. Studies like Rana Kabbani's Europe's Myths of Orient: Devise and Rule explore the convergence of race, class, and gender in the conceptualization of the "Orient." Kabbani claims that in Elias Canetti's Die Stimmen von Marrakesch the narrator's identification with the colonizer's position enters into his representation of self as much as does his gender. My essay demonstrates how the Austrian writer Barbara Frischmuth and the German writer …