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Critical Terrains French and British Orientalisms / Lisa Lowe.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lowe, Lisa.
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Exoticism in literature.
- British--Orient--History.
- British.
- French--Orient--History.
- French.
- Orientalism.
- English literature--Asian influences.
- English literature.
- French literature--Asian influences.
- French literature.
- Orient--In literature.
- Orient.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cornell University Press 2018
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Lisa Lowe is Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University. She is the author of The Intimacies of Four Continents and Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics and coauthor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital.
- Summary:
- 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 sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters and Montesquieu's Lettres persanes and discusses tropes of orientalism, racialism, and romanticism in Flaubert. She then turns to debates in Anglo-American and Indian criticism on Forster's Passage to India and on the utopian projection of China in the poststructuralist theories of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes and in the journal Tel Quel.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- 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 Telquel
- Conclusion: Orientalism Interrupted
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This eBook is made available Open Access. Unless otherwise specified in the content, the work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501728051
- 1501728059
- 9780801425790
- 0801425794
- 9781501723124
- 150172312X
- OCLC:
- 1057688764
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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