Sweet, David LeHardy. Avant-garde Orientalism : The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry / [electronic resource] : / by David LeHardy Sweet.. — 1st ed. 2017.. — XIII, 318 p. : online resource.

1. Introduction -- 2. The Poetics of Travel, Postcolonial Criticism, and the Theory of the Avant-Garde -- 3. A Literary Genealogy of Avant-garde Orientalism -- 4. The Maghreb and Tangier -- 5. Egypt and Palestine -- 6. India -- 7. Conclusion: The Far East. .

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Анотація:
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. .

ISBN: 9783319503738

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-50373-8 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature   .
Comparative literature.
Literature, Modern—21st century.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Comparative Literature.
Contemporary Literature.

LC Class. No.: PN770-779

Dewey Class. No.: 809.04