Avant-garde Orientalism : The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry

Sweet, David LeHardy

Springer International Publishing AG（2018/07発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 318 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9783319843834
• DDC分類 809

Full Description

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.    

Contents

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.