Mapping Fez: Colonial Discourse and Wharton’s Narratives

Th e White Lady Travels: Narrating Fez and Spacing Colonial Authority in Edith Wharton’s In Morocco1
Lhoussain Simour
Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fez, Morocco
simour2@hotmail.com

Abstract
Foregrounding Orientalism as a system of thought that has produced constructed images and disfi gured discourses about Europe’s Other, this paper is primarily concerned with the practice of delineating landscape and manipulating the space of Fez in Edith Wharton’s In Morocco. It starts with a rereading of Edward Said’s model of analysis and then moves to an investigation into how this travel narrative displays, vulgarizes, and reproduces one of the strategies characteristic of colonial discourse: the mapping of the colonial space, spe-cifi cally through the inscription of self and Other power relations,…