Colonial conquest history planted rape fantasies in European dreams about Algerian women

Evidence

Thus the rape of the Algerian woman in the dream of a European is always preceded by a rending of the veil. We here witness a double deflowering. Likewise, the woman’s conduct is never one of consent or acceptance, but of abject humility. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 159 (#expands, via linked claim)

But there is also in the European the crystallization of an aggressiveness, the strain of a kind of violence before the Algerian woman. Unveiling this woman is revealing her beauty; it is baring her secret, breaking her resistance, making her available for adventure. Hiding the face is also disguising a secret; it is also creating a world of mystery, of the hidden. In a confused way, the European experiences his relation with the Algerian woman at a highly complex level. There is in it the will to bring this woman within his reach, to make her a possible object of possession. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 152 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim; In European dreams rape of an Algerian woman is preceded by tearing the veil.; Muslim sexual monstrosity fantasies persisted from medieval claims into the colonial croco-sapien (+14 more)

Related

• In European dreams rape of an Algerian woman is preceded by tearing the veil. (similarity 0.92)
• In European dreams, raping the Algerian woman requires first rending her veil (similarity 0.89)
• The European’s impulse to unveil Algerian women is an act of possession (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial confinement degraded Algerian women’s bodily mobility and assurance (similarity 0.83)
• Unveiled Algerian women unsettled European women by excelling at Western femininity (similarity 0.83)
• European observers read the veil as concealing beauty that should be forcibly exhibited (similarity 0.81)
• European women felt economically and socially threatened by assimilated Algerian women (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalist paintings of Muslim women reveal European male fantasy more than real conditions. (similarity 0.79)
• Empire served as a dumping ground for Europe’s undesirables and repressed desires (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial administration targeted starving women first with anti-veil propaganda. (similarity 0.79)
• Ottoman-ruled lands were imagined as sites of unnatural sexuality (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• In European dreams rape of an Algerian woman is preceded by tearing the veil. #expands (0.75)
• In European dreams, raping the Algerian woman requires first rending her veil #expands (0.75) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 159
• Colonial prejudices sexualized and dehumanized the Algerian Muslim #corroborates (0.70)
• The European’s impulse to unveil Algerian women is an act of possession #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 152
• Orientalist paintings of Muslim women reveal European male fantasy more than real conditions. #corroborates (0.65) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 199
• Muslim sexual monstrosity fantasies persisted from medieval claims into the colonial croco-sapien #expands (0.60)
• Medieval genitalia fantasies persisted into colonial-era European mythology #expands (0.55)
• Removing the veil disrupts the Algerian woman’s body image and spatial sense. #expands (0.50) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 204
• Desert fiction marked Arabs as fossils needing European stewardship #corroborates (0.50)
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