Avant-Garde Orientalism The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry
| Author/creator | LeHardy Sweet, David Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Palgrave Macmillan Secaucus : Springer [Distributor] |
| Description | xiii, 318 p. ill 21.000 x 014.800 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9783319503721 |
| ISBN | 3319503723 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9783319503721 |
| Stock number | 9783319503721 00676990 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |