UID:
almafu_9959243362802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (415 p.)
ISBN:
1-282-48149-5
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9786612481499
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1-4438-1792-9
Inhalt:
While Said focused on the perceptions and stereotypes of the Near East "Oriental" in England, France and the United States, most of these essays study the decentering interplay between "peripheral" areas of the Third World, "semiperipheral" areas (Spain and Portugal since the second part of the seventeenth century), and marginalized social groups of the globe (Chicanos, African Americans, and Filipino Americans). They explore, for example, how China and the Far East in general are imagined an...
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; WHY YOU CANNOT READ FARABEUF; ECHOES FROM A DISTANCE; OCTAVIO PAZ AND INDIA; THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S ORIENTALIZATION OF THE MAYA; CHAPTER TWO; IDENTITY CONFUSION IN SIU KAM WEN'S "LA CONVERSIÓN DE UEI-KUONG"; SHADOWS IN THE WIND; BUILDING THE NATION FROM THE OUTSIDE; CHAPTER THREE; THREE VISIONS OF CHINA IN THE CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN NOVEL; STAGING ABSENCE; CHAPTER FOUR; ORIENTALISM IN PORTUGUESE LITERATURE; ARAB HERITAGE IN BRAZILIAN WRITER RADUAN NASSAR'S TO THE LEFT OF THE FATHER; CHAPTER FIVE
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THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS AS LIVING NARRATIVETHE EXPULSION OF MUSLIMS AND JEWS IN DON QUIXOTE AND THE PICARESQUE OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY; SEPARATION AND DISPLACEMENT IN FRANCISCO PRADILLA'S ORIENTALIST PAINTINGS; CHAPTER SIX; MARÍA ZAMBRANO; ZORAIDA'S CONVERSION IN CERVANTES'S"CAPTIVE TALE" AND LATIN AMERICAN THEORY; CHAPTER SEVEN; HOW DOES AN OTHER WRITE ANOTHER?; CULTURAL CONFIGURATION OF THE PHILIPPINES IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY; THE JAPANESE OXYMORON; PORTRAYAL OF ASIAN AMERICANS IN U.S. MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENTS; CHAPTER EIGHT; THE SONG OF THE DRAGON
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THE WESTERN EXOTICISM OF TWELVE GIRLS BANDCHAPTER NINE; SOMEWHERE OUT BEYOND THE STARS; SOUTH READS WESTERN AND EASTERN EAST
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4438-1657-4
Sprache:
Englisch
