UID:
almafu_9959677745602883
Format:
1 online resource (178 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-06285-2
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9786613062857
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0-8223-8263-6
Series Statement:
Post-contemporary interventions
Content:
In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel writing and its dynamic function in European colonialism. Arriving too late to the Orient, at a time when tourism and colonialism had already turned the exotic into the familiar, late nineteenth-century European travelers to the Middle East experienced a sense of belatedness, of having missed the authentic experience once offered by a world that was already disappearing. Behdad argues that this nostalgic desire for the other contains an implicit critique of Western superiority, a spl
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction: The Predicaments of Belatedness -- Orientalist Desire, Desire for the Orient: Ideological Splits in Nerval -- From Travelogue to Tourist Guide: The Orientalist as Sightseer -- Notes on Notes, or with Flaubert in Paris, Egypt -- Kipling's "Other" Narrator/Reader: Self-Exoticism and the Micropolitics of Colonial Ambivalence -- Colonial Ethnography and the Politics of Gender: The Everyday Life of an Orientalist Journey -- Allahou-Akbar! He Is a Woman: Colonialism, Transvestism, and the Orientalist Parasite "Tristesse du Depart": An Open-ended Conclusion
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-1454-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-1471-1
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Reisebericht
DOI:
10.1515/9780822382638
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1167668
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