Avant-garde Orientalism

The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry

Gebonden Engels 2017 9783319503721
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This study explores the work of Western avant-garde writers who traveled to and wrote about Asia and North Africa. Though exoticist in outlook, many of these writers were also anti-colonialist and thus avoided some of the pitfalls of academic orientalism by assuming an aesthetics of diversity while employing strategies of provocation and reciprocity. As a survey of works on travel (including essays, novels, poems, and plays), the book challenges or modifies many postcolonial assumptions about Western writers on the Orient: from the French Surrealists to the American Beats and even transnational authors of the new millennium. Through a synthesis of avant-garde, postcolonial, and travel literature theories, Avant-garde Orientalism works in the best tradition of comparative literary study to identify and analyze a distinct category of world literature.    

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ISBN13:9783319503721
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing

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<p>1. Introduction.- 2. The Poetics of Travel, Postcolonial Criticism, and the Theory of the Avant-Garde.- 3. A Literary Genealogy of Avant-garde Orientalism.- 4. The Maghreb and Tangier.- 5.&nbsp; Egypt and Palestine.- 6.&nbsp; India.- 7.&nbsp; Conclusion: The Far East.&nbsp;</p>

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