Literary Orientalism, postcolonialism, and universalism
By: Abdulla Al-Dabbagh.
Series: Postcolonial studies -- v. 9; Postcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.) -- v. 9.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781433107665
Subjects: Orientalism in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; East and West in literature; European literature -- History and criticism; English literature -- History and criticism; Orient -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Orientalism, literary Orientalism and romanticism; title: The Oriental roots of the picaresque; title: Orientalism and literary translation; title: The Oriental sources of courtly love; title: The Orient, the other and the novel; title: Going native: Conrad and postcolonial discourse; title: Modern universalism and the myth of Westernness; title: Globalism and the universal language: some lessons from the past; title: Language, truth, and logic in the age of globalism and the discourse of civilizations; title: Colonialism, postcolonialism, and anti-colonialism: a closer look at the false rhetoric of freedom.