Le « mythe bédouin » revisité. Les femmes nomades au miroir des voyageurs en Orient, de Volney à Lamartine

Based on the idealized figure of the Arabic nomads and carrying values such as liberty, simplicity, purity, etc., notably through travel writers in the Orient, from the end of the 18th century to the middle of the 19th century, the “bedouin myth” is primarily a masculine one. Nevertheless, women are...

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Main Author: Sarga Moussa
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Published: Université Clermont Auvergne 2024-02-01
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Le « mythe bédouin » revisité. Les femmes nomades au miroir des voyageurs en Orient, de Volney à Lamartine
Viatica
Chateaubriand (François-René de)
Bedouin myth
nomadic women
Volney
Lamartine (Alphonse de)
title Le « mythe bédouin » revisité. Les femmes nomades au miroir des voyageurs en Orient, de Volney à Lamartine
title_full Le « mythe bédouin » revisité. Les femmes nomades au miroir des voyageurs en Orient, de Volney à Lamartine
title_fullStr Le « mythe bédouin » revisité. Les femmes nomades au miroir des voyageurs en Orient, de Volney à Lamartine
title_full_unstemmed Le « mythe bédouin » revisité. Les femmes nomades au miroir des voyageurs en Orient, de Volney à Lamartine
title_short Le « mythe bédouin » revisité. Les femmes nomades au miroir des voyageurs en Orient, de Volney à Lamartine
title_sort le mythe bedouin revisite les femmes nomades au miroir des voyageurs en orient de volney a lamartine
topic Chateaubriand (François-René de)
Bedouin myth
nomadic women
Volney
Lamartine (Alphonse de)
url https://journals.openedition.org/viatica/3221
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