Translating Orients : Between Ideology and Utopia /

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Drawing on Buddhist thought and offering, in part, a response to Edward Said's classic work in the same field, Translating Orients re-interprets Orientalism and shows the vital presence of the Orient in twentieth century and contemporary world literatures. Defining Orients as neither subjects n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weiss, Timothy, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Geschichte 1900-2000.
Letterkunde.
Oriëntalisme.
Literatur
Oriental literature.
Literature, Modern.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Litterature orientale > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Orient dans la litterature.
Oriental literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Orient in literature.
Orient (Motiv)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Borges's search, or the bibliophilic Orient
  • 'Without stopping' : the Orient as liminal space in Paul Bowles
  • The living labyrinth : Hong Kong and David T.K. Wong's Hong Kong stories
  • Where is place? : local and identity in Kazua Ishiguro's When we were orphans and Ricardo Piglia's La ciudad ausente
  • At the end of east/west : myth in Salman Rushdie's The moor's last sigh
  • Identity and citizenship in a world of shame.

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