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Item type | Location | Call Number | Status | Notes | Date Due |
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Book | AUM Main Library | 809.933585 S974 (Browse Shelf) | Available | 511413 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index
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
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