Critical Terrains : French and British Orientalisms.
Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexual...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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ISBN: | 150172312X 9781501723124 |
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Table of Contents:
- Critical Terrains; Contents; Preface; 1 Discourse and Heterogeneity: Situating Orientalism; 2 Travel Narratives and Orientalism: Montagu and Montesquieu; 3 Orient as Woman, Orientalism as Sentimentalism: Flaubert; 4 Orientalism as Literary Criticism: The Reception of E.M. Forster's Passage to India; 5 The Desires of Postcolonial Orientalism: Chinese Utopias of Kristeva, Barthes, and Tel quel; Conclusion: Orientalism Interrupted; Works Cited; Index.