TY - BOOK AU - Sweet,David LeHardy ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Avant-garde Orientalism: The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry SN - 9783319503738 AV - PN770-779 U1 - 809.04 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Cham PB - Springer International Publishing, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan KW - Literature, Modern—20th century KW - Literature    KW - Comparative literature KW - Literature, Modern—21st century KW - Twentieth-Century Literature KW - Postcolonial/World Literature KW - Comparative Literature KW - Contemporary Literature N1 - 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.; Available to subscribing member institutions only. Доступно лише організаціям членам підписки N2 - 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. UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50373-8 ER -