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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Ithaca ; London :
Cornell University Press,
1991.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.