Literary Orientalism, postcolonialism, and universalism

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Al-Dabbagh, Abdulla
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, c2010.
Series:Postcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 9.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Orientalism, literary Orientalism and romanticism
  • The Oriental roots of the picaresque
  • Orientalism and literary translation
  • The Oriental sources of courtly love
  • The Orient, the other and the novel
  • Going native: Conrad and postcolonial discourse
  • Modern universalism and the myth of Westernness
  • Globalism and the universal language: some lessons from the past
  • Language, truth, and logic in the age of globalism and the discourse of civilizations
  • Colonialism, postcolonialism, and anti-colonialism: a closer look at the false rhetoric of freedom.