Review of: Melanie Ulz: Auf dem Schlachtfeld des Empire. Männlichkeitskonzepte in der Bildproduktion zu Napoleons Ägyptenfeldzug. Marburg: Jonas Verlag 2008.
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https://doi.org/10.14766/888Keywords:
Männlichkeit, Kolonialismus, Geschlecht, GenderAbstract
Napoleon’s Campaign of Egypt at the end of the 18th century had afterwards been worked with and addressed in graphical media extensively. Melanie Ulz analyzes these media in respect to expressed as well as changing concepts of masculinity. The visualizations essentially display what has later been called “Orientalism”. The European/ French man and warrior is opposed to the Oriental man, who is depicted as multivalent and culturally inferior. Despite the subtlety of the art, the works basically deal with the opposition of stereotypes. Ulz manages to convincingly prove the sexualized subtext of Orientalism.
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2010-10-14
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