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- Title
Moving Visions: Matisse's Odalisques, Sebbar's Shérazade, and Imagery as Emulation.
- Authors
Hulstyn, Michaela
- Abstract
This essay analyzes aesthetic response in Leïla Sebbar's Shérazade , using cognitive analyses of the sister arts and processes of visual perception to describe how ekphrasis enacts a drama of self-fashioning for an Algerian girl in a French museum. Sebbar's rendering of Matisse's Odalisque à la culotte rouge [ Odalisque in Red Trousers ] foregrounds the emulative and transformative aspects of imagery. Rather than casting Shérazade's gaze as a purely oppositional one (a refusal of Orientalist fantasy), this essay shows how Sebbar's heroine redeploys the painting as a charged space of cohered artistic vision that draws its power from the moving images produced by kinesis.
- Subjects
MATISSE, Henri, 1869-1954; SHERAZADE (Book : Sebbar); SEBBAR, Leila; VISUAL perception; EKPHRASIS
- Publication
Modern Fiction Studies, 2022, Vol 68, Issue 4, p708
- ISSN
0026-7724
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/mfs.2022.0048