Orientalism Transposed
Subtitle: The Impact of the Colonies on British Culture
Contributors: Julie F. Codell (Editor); Dianne Sachko MacLeod (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing; Brand: Scolar Pr; Scolar Pr
Published: March 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781859284544
Subjects: Colonization & independence; Cultural studies; Orientalism; Sociology, Social Studies; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; Colonies And Colonization; Great Britain - History - 19th Century; History; Sociology; British Empire; Customs & Traditions; Europe - Great Britain - General
Description: "The essays in this volume demonstrate how influential the Empire was on British culture from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. They show how, from cross-cultural cross-dressing to Buddhism, British artists and writers appropriated unfamiliar and challenging aspects of the culture of the Empire for their own purposes. An examination is also made of the extent to which colonized people engaged in the orientalizing discourse, amending and subverting it, even re-applying its stereotypes to the British themselves. Finally, two essays explore instances of the exchange of ideas between colonies."--BOOK JACKET.