Translating Orients : : Between Ideology and Utopia /

Translating Orients : : Between Ideology and Utopia / / Timothy Weiss.

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Drawing on Buddhist thought and offering, in part, a response to Edward Said's classic work in the same field, Translating Orients re-interprets Orientalism and shows the vital presence of the Orient in twentieth century and contemporary world literatures. Defining Orients as neither subjects n...

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Weiss, Timothy,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2004
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PREFACE
  • Introduction
  • 1. Borges's Search, or the Bibliophilic Orient
  • 2. 'Without Stopping': The Orient as Liminal Space in Paul Bowles
  • 3. The Living Labyrinth: Hong Kong and David T.K Wong's Hong Kong Stories
  • 4. Where Is Place? Locale and Identity in Kazua Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and Ricardo Piglia's La ciudad ausente
  • 5. At the End of East/West: Myth in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh
  • 6. Identity and Citizenship in a World of Shame
  • Neither Subjects nor Objects: In the Middle Way
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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