Cultural Crossings: Sartorial Adventures, Satiric Narratives, and the Question of Indigenous Agency in Nineteenth‐Century Europe and the Near East

Roberts, Mary

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“…Sartorial Orientalism gathered momentum everywhere in Europe in the nineteenth century because it was based on 'humor, play, transformation, and transgression'. 19 However, the imperial agenda did not characterize the very first outburst of sartorial Orientalism in metropolitan France. The first Frenchmen to put on Algerian clothes were members of the Parisian intelligentsia of the time, writers and artists in search of escapism, the picturesque, exoticism: in a nutshell, in search of new, extra-European horizons, fresh air and renewed inspiration.…”

Section: The Appeal Of Exoticism: Sartorial Orientalism In Metropolitan Francementioning

confidence: 99%

Sartorial Orientalism: Cross-cultural Dressing in Colonial Algeria and Metropolitan France in the Nineteenth Century

Thoral

2014

European History Quarterly

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This article will address the broad issue of the role of dress as a means and an indicator of cross-cultural encounters in a colonial context through the example of metropolitan France and colonial Algeria (1830–1930). It will assess the links between imperial power relations and cross-cultural dressing. The example of colonial Algeria is particularly relevant for a study of the inner motivations, expectations and tensions at stake in sartorial Orientalism as it was then home to three communities with very different cultures and dressing patterns: French settlers, Algerian Muslims and Algerian Jews.

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Section: The Appeal Of Exoticism: Sartorial Orientalism In Metropolitan Francementioning

confidence: 99%