Cargando…
Veiled encounters : representing the Orient in 17th-century French travel literature /
Travel narratives were the principal source of knowledge about the lands of the Near East and the Indian Ocean Basin in 17th-century France. Claiming the authority of first-hand observation, they paradoxically rely for their legitimization on the tropes of an established literary tradition. The stat...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Francés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
©2008.
|
| Colección: | Faux titre ;
no. 321. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Travel narratives were the principal source of knowledge about the lands of the Near East and the Indian Ocean Basin in 17th-century France. Claiming the authority of first-hand observation, they paradoxically rely for their legitimization on the tropes of an established literary tradition. The status of these texts remained ambiguous, not least because of their anecdotal depictions of great riches, brutality or sexual promise. Drawing on the insights of post-colonial scholarship, this study tackles a question given scant attention in previous work and suggests that beyond the hazy representat. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273)-294) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781435695283 1435695283 9042024763 9789042024762 9789401206402 9401206406 |
| ISSN: | 0167-9392 ; |