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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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| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham, N.C. :
Duke University Press,
1994.
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| Series: | Post-contemporary interventions.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.