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Critical terrains : French and British orientalisms /

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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lowe, Lisa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 1991.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Discourse and heterogeneity : situating orientalism
  • Travel narratives and orientalism : Montagu and Montesquieu
  • Orient as woman, orientalism as sentimentalism: Flaubert
  • Orientalism as literary criticism : the reception of E.M. Forster's Passage to India
  • The desires of postcolonial orientalism : Chinese utopias of Kristeva, Barthes, and Tel quel
  • Conclusion : orientalism interrupted.