Autore
Cariello, Marta

Titolo
Walking Out of the Museum: The Reconfiguration of Modernism in Mohja Kahf's "Thawrah des Odalisques at the Matisse Retrospective"
Periodico
Textus
Anno: 2013 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 99 - Pagina finale: 116

This article explores Syrian-born author Mohja Kahf's poem "Thawrahdes Odalisques at the Matisse Retrospective" (2003) as a transtextual'intervention' on the paradigmatic Modernist representation of reifiedfemale bodies. Kahf re-writes the subjectivity and agency of the womenin Matisse's paintings in a translational construction of a feminist, postodalisquesubjectivity. The archival practices that have construed thepredicament of modernity, namely the museum and the canons of 'modern'art, come undone in a post-colonial and feminist critique of the dominantnarrative of modern (Western) identity.



SICI: 1824-3967(2013)2<99:WOOTMT>2.0.ZU;2-7
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