Critical Terrains : French and British Orientalisms / / Lisa Lowe.
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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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 1991. ©1991. |
Year of Publication: | 2018 1991 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 pages) |
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Other title: | 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 |
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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. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1501728059 0801425794 150172312X |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Lisa Lowe. |