Avant-Garde Orientalism: The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry

by David LeHardy Sweet

Book Overview

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction

Avant-garde offensive

Avant-garde orientalism, or a visionary exoticism

Discontinuous itineraries

2. The Poetics of Travel, Postcolonial Criticism, and the Theory of the Avant-Garde

Travel theory's assimilation of postcolonial method: MacCannell, Said

The Derridean inflection and the emergence of the hybrid: Spivak, Bhabha

Global ideoscapes,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319843834
• ISBN13: 9783319843834
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"