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Belated Travelers : Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution /
In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel writing and its dynamic function in European colonialism. Arriving too late to the Orient, at a time when tourism and colonialism had already turned the exotic into the familiar, late nineteenth-centu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[1994]
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| Colección: | Post-Contemporary Interventions
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: The Predicaments of Belatedness
- 1. Orientalist Desire, Desire for the Orient: Ideological Splits in Nerval
- 2. From Travelogue to Tourist Guide: The Orientalist as Sightseer
- 3. Notes on Notes, or with Flaubert in Paris, Egypt
- 4. Kipling's "Other" Narrator/Reader: Self-Exoticism and the Micropolitics of Colonial Ambivalence
- 5. Colonial Ethnography and the Politics of Gender: The Everyday Life of an Orientalist Journey
- 6. Allahou-Akbar! He Is a Woman: Colonialism, Transvestism, and the Orientalist Parasite
- "Tristesse du Depart": An Open-ended Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index