Translating Orients
Subtitle: Between Ideology and Utopia
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: April 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780802089588
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; Semiotics & Theory; Literary Criticism; ASIA; Literature, Modern; Literary Criticism & Collections / Theory; General; Asian - General; 20th century; In literature; Orient; Oriental literature
First sentence: In Manoel de Oliveira's film Palavra e Utopia (2000), a fictional dramatization based on letters, sermons, and other historical documents, the seventeenth-century Jesuit priest Father Antonio Vieira dedicates his life to fighting slavery and the mistreatment of Africans and Amerindians in the New World.
Description: "Translating Orients reinterprets Orientalism and shows the vital presence of the Orient in twentieth-century and contemporary world literatures. Defining Orients as neither subjects nor objects but realities that emerge through translational acts, Timothy Weiss argues that all interpretation can be viewed as translations that contain utopian as well as ideological aspects. The translational approach to literary and cultural interpretations adds depth to Weiss's analysis of works by Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, V.S. Naipul, Salman Rushdie, and Kazua Ishiguro, among others."--BOOK JACKET.