Title Historic engagements with occidental cultures, religions, powers / Anne R. Richards and Iraj Omidvar, editors

Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

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Description 1 online resource Series Postcolonialism and religions Postcolonialism and religions. Contents Introduction: Recovering Oriental Perspectives on the West / Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards -- Part One: Central and Eastern Europe -- Chapter One: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Crystal Palace / Roger Chapman -- Chapter Two: Ubeydullah Effendi in the United States : The Impressions of an Ottoman Intellectual Regarding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair / Birgül Koçak-Ostev -- Part Two: Western Asia -- Chapter Three: The Moor's First Sight : An Arab Poet in a Ninth-Century Viking Court / Nizar Hermes -- Chapter Four: Imperial Narratives : Islamic Concepts of Inclusion and Exclusion in Ibn Fadlan's Account of his Mission to the Bulgars / Nina Berman -- Chapter Five: Two Muslim Travelers to the West in the Nineteenth Century / Ahmed K. Al-Rawi -- Part Three: South Asia -- Chapter Six: 'Ajaibat-e-Farang : Yousuf Khan Kambalposh's Metropolitan Journey and Ways of Seeing the West / Masood Ashraf Raja -- Chapter Seven: The International Colour Line Has Been Challenged : Solidarity Networks in Indian Travel Narratives / Anupama Arora -- Chapter Eight: Reactions of Two Bengali Women Travelers : Krishnobhabini Das and Chitrita Devi / Nupur Chaudhuri -- Chapter Nine: Chinese Culture and Western Technology : Qi Zhaoxi's Writings about the United States / Junjie Luo -- Part Four: Southeast and Eastern Asia -- Chapter Ten: Balinese Art, Religion, and Community in the Netherlands / Ana Dragojlovic -- Chapter Eleven: Shigetsu Sasaki : Zen Vagabond in the United States / Claudia Milstead -- Chapter Twelve: Un-canning the Canny : McDonald's Japan and the Mr. James Saga / Ed Chan -- Conclusion: Religion, Transculturalism, and Consciousness / Anne R. Richards Summary By focusing on a wide range of eastern writers who created influential bodies of work on western mores and religious and political institutions, and who, in so doing, reflected deeply on their own habits and assumptions, Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers calls into question the all-too-common assumption that until the emergence of postcolonial thought the role of easterners has been to serve as objects of the gaze of westerners. This group of international authors amply demonstrates that the insights of postcolonial studies into human relations can be relevant in contexts at a remove spatially and temporally from western colonialism. The collection is unusual in the scope of its scholarship: chapters present compelling narratives that address life in Europe, in the United States, and in post-World War II Japan through the eyes of eastern intellectuals of the tenth through the twentieth centuries. The collection contributes to postcolonial scholarship on Hybrid identities while adding to the body of scholarship countering assumptions that the Oriental was acted upon but did not act, spoken about but did not reply "Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers explores centuries of unequal power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by Eastern travelers to the West. Considered in depth are evolutions in mental frameworks and practices that led to the emergence of anticolonial consciousness and strategies of protest"--Provided by publisher Notes Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject East and West -- History Imperialism -- History Asians -- Travel -- Western countries -- History Muslims -- Travel -- Western countries -- History Travelers -- Western countries Travelers' writings. travel literature. TRAVEL -- South America -- General. East and West Imperialism International relations Muslims -- Travel Public opinion, Asian Travel Travelers Travelers' writings SUBJECT Western countries -- Foreign public opinion, Asian Asia -- Relations -- Western countries Western countries -- Relations -- Asia Western countries -- Description and travel Subject Asia Western countries Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Richards, Anne R., 1961- editor. Omidvar, Iraj, editor ISBN 9781137405029 1137405023 9781322295039 1322295034

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