Author by: Sara Wood Language: en Publisher by: Harlequin / SB Creative Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 98 Total Download: 150 File Size: 49,6 Mb Description: Tiffany didn’t want more drama in her life, but unfortunately it still came for her. Just as her company was on the verge of going under, a man named Hassan visited, asking her to do a job that just might save it.

Hassan being the commander in chief of the Sharif Empire, Tiffany’s boss was more than willing to accept the job. The way Hassan glowers at Tiffany, she is instantly reminded of her late husband. Hassan turns out to be her brother-in-law, come looking for her and more specifically her son. Tiffany’s son is the heir to the Sharif Empire, and as such Hassan wants to take him to his homeland to learn about his country. He offers to take Tiffany, too.

Remembering how awful her husband was, she assumes Hassan can be no better. Just what are Hassan’s true intentions for her and her son? Author by: Hsu-Ming Teo Language: en Publisher by: University of Texas Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 38 Total Download: 176 File Size: 40,9 Mb Description: The Sheik—E. 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 literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today's mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments.

Drawing on 'high' literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women's Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism. Author by: Amira Jarmakani Language: en Publisher by: NYU Press Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 54 Total Download: 574 File Size: 51,5 Mb Description: A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called “desert romances.” Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultural landscape. Vampire The Masquerade Graphics Patch. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western popular culture.