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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
Autor principal: Behdad, Ali, 1961- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1994.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.