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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Behdad, Ali, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1994.
Colección:Post-contemporary interventions.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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-century European travelers to the Middle East experienced a sense of belatedness, of having missed the authentic experience once offered by a world that was already disappearing. Behdad argues that this nostalgic desire for the other contains an implicit critique of Western superiority, a spl.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 165 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-158) and index.
ISBN:9780822382638
0822382636
1283062852
9781283062855
9786613062857
6613062855