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1 online resource (x, 165 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Post-contemporary interventions |
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Post-contemporary interventions.
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Predicaments of Belatedness -- 1. Orientalist Desire, Desire for the Orient: Ideological Splits in Nerval -- 2. From Travelogue to Tourist Guide: The Orientalist as Sightseer -- 3. Notes on Notes, or with Flaubert in Paris, Egypt -- 4. Kipling's "Other" Narrator/Reader: Self-Exoticism and the Micropolitics of Colonial Ambivalence -- 5. Colonial Ethnography and the Politics of Gender: The Everyday Life of an Orientalist Journey -- 6. Allahou-Akbar! He Is a Woman: Colonialism, Transvestism, and the Orientalist Parasite -- "Tristesse du Depart": An Open-ended Conclusion |
| Summary |
In Belated Travelers, Ali Behdad offers a compelling cultural critique of nineteenth-century travel writing and its dynamic function in European colonialism. Arriving too late to the Orient, at a time when tourism and colonialism had already turned the exotic into the familiar, late nineteenth-century European travelers to the Middle East experienced a sense of belatedness, of having missed the authentic experience once offered by a world that was already disappearing. Behdad argues that this nostalgic desire for the other contains an implicit critique of Western superiority, a spl |
| Analysis |
Colonialism |
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Middle East |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-158) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Middle East specialists.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Middle East specialists
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Education
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Oriëntalisme.
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Publieke opinie.
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Reizen.
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Reisbeschrijvingen.
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Orientalistes.
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Middle East -- Foreign public opinion, Occidental
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Middle East -- Study and teaching -- Europe
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Europe
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Middle East
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Proche-Orient -- Opinion publique étrangère.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822382638 |
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0822382636 |
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1283062852 |
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9781283062855 |
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9786613062857 |
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6613062855 |
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