Belated travelers : orientalism in the age of colonial dissolution / Ali Behdad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Behdad, Ali, 1961-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Post-contemporary interventions.

Post-contemporary interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle East specialists.

Middle East--Foreign public opinion, Western.

Middle East.

Middle East--Study and teaching--Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel writing and its dynamic function in European colonialism. Arriving too late to the Orient, at a time when tourism and colonialism had already turned the exotic into the familiar, late nineteenth-century European travelers to the Middle East experienced a sense of belatedness, of having missed the authentic experience once offered by a world that was already disappearing. Behdad argues that this nostalgic desire for the other contains an implicit critique of Western superiority, a spl

Contents:

Introduction: The Predicaments of Belatedness

Orientalist Desire, Desire for the Orient: Ideological Splits in Nerval

From Travelogue to Tourist Guide: The Orientalist as Sightseer

Notes on Notes, or with Flaubert in Paris, Egypt

Kipling's "Other" Narrator/Reader: Self-Exoticism and the Micropolitics of Colonial Ambivalence

Colonial Ethnography and the Politics of Gender: The Everyday Life of an Orientalist Journey

Allahou-Akbar! He Is a Woman: Colonialism, Transvestism, and the Orientalist Parasite "Tristesse du Depart": An Open-ended Conclusion

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-158) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062857

9781283062855

1283062852

9780822382638

0822382636

OCLC:

850215778