Critical Terrains : French and British Orientalisms /

Critical Terrains : French and British Orientalisms /

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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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Main Author: Lowe, Lisa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Cornell University Press, 1991.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Engels.
Frans.
Oriëntalisme.
Orientalism.
Literature.
French.
Exoticism in literature.
English literature > Asian influences.
British.
Britanniques > Orient > Histoire.
Français > Orient > Histoire.
Orientalisme.
Litterature française > Influence asiatique.
British > Orient > History.
French > Orient > History.
French literature > Asian influences.
Asia > Orient.
Orient > Dans la litterature.
Orient > In literature.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Discourse and heterogeneity : situating orientalism
  • Travel narratives and orientalism : Montagu and Montesquieu
  • Orient as woman, orientalism as sentimentalism: Flaubert
  • Orientalism as literary criticism : the reception of E.M. Forster's Passage to India
  • The desires of postcolonial orientalism : Chinese utopias of Kristeva, Barthes, and Tel quel
  • Conclusion : orientalism interrupted.

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