Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels by Hsu-Ming Teo

Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels

Hsu-Ming Teo

352 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender history challenging informative slow-paced
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The Sheik-E. M. Hull's best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino-kindled "sheik fever" across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically "Oriental" swept through fashion, film, and lit...

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