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Record Nr.

UNINA9910272354003321

Autore

Lowe Lisa

Titolo

Critical Terrains : French and British Orientalisms / / Lisa Lowe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2018

Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 1991

©1991

ISBN

1-5017-2805-9

0-8014-2579-4

1-5017-2312-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 pages)

Disciplina

840.9

Soggetti

Exoticism in literature

British - Orient - History

French - Orient - History

Orientalism

English literature - Asian influences

French literature - Asian influences

Electronic books.

Orient In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Discourse and Heterogeneity: Situating Orientalism -- 2. Travel Narratives and Orientalism: Montagu and Montesquieu -- 3. Orient as Woman, Orientalism as Sentimentalism: Flaubert -- 4. Orientalism as Literary Criticism: The Reception of E. M. Forster's Passage to India -- 5. The Desires of Postcolonial Orientalism: Chinese Utopias of Kristeva, Barthes, and Telquel -- Conclusion: Orientalism Interrupted -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy



Letters and Montesquieu's Lettres persanes and discusses tropes of orientalism, racialism, and romanticism in Flaubert. She then turns to debates in Anglo-American and Indian criticism on Forster's Passage to India and on the utopian projection of China in the poststructuralist theories of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes and in the journal Tel Quel.