Avant-garde Orientalism
| Autor: | David LeHardy Sweet |
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| EAN: | 9783319503738 |
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | eBook |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 20.01.2017 |
| Untertitel: | The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry |
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| Schlagworte: | Avant-Garde Experimental Writers Postcolonial Theory Travel Writing Twentieth-Century Literature |
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This study explores the work of Western avant-garde writers who traveled to and wrote about Asia and North Africa. Though exoticist in outlook, many of these writers were also anti-colonialist and thus avoided some of the pitfalls of academic orientalism by assuming an aesthetics of diversity while employing strategies of provocation and reciprocity. As a survey of works on travel (including essays, novels, poems, and plays), the book challenges or modifies many postcolonial assumptions about Western writers on the Orient: from the French Surrealists to the American Beats and even transnational authors of the new millennium. Through a synthesis of avant-garde, postcolonial, and travel literature theories, Avant-garde Orientalism works in the best tradition of comparative literary study to identify and analyze a distinct category of world literature.
David Sweet is a lecturer at Pace University, USA. His previous books include Savage Sight/Constructed Noise: Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes and Jean Cocteau and 'The Testament of Orpheus'(in collaboration with photographer Lucien Clergue).
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