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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Table of 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