Female Trouble in the Colonial Harem

Emily Apter teaches in the French and Italian department at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Feminizing the Fetish: Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the-Century France (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991) and co-editor with William Pietz of “Fetishism as Cultural Discourse,” forthcoming from Cornell UP.