Avant-garde Orientalism : the Eastern 'Other' in twentieth-century travel narrative and poetry / David LeHardy Sweet.

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Avant-garde Orientalism : the Eastern 'Other' in twentieth-century travel narrative and poetry / David LeHardy Sweet.

9783319503738 (electronic book)
3319503731 (electronic book)
9783319503721

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]

English

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PN56.3.O74 S94 2017eb

809/.933585

This study explores the work of Western avant-garde writers who traveled to and wrote about Asia and North Africa. Though exoticist in outlook, many of these writers were also anti-colonialist and thus avoided some of the pitfalls of academic orientalism by assuming an aesthetics of diversity while employing strategies of provocation and reciprocity. As a survey of works on travel (including essays, novels, poems, and plays), the book challenges or modifies many postcolonial assumptions about Western writers on the Orient: from the French Surrealists to the American Beats and even transnational authors of the new millennium. Through a synthesis of avant-garde, postcolonial, and travel literature theories, Avant-garde Orientalism works in the best tradition of comparative literary study to identify and analyze a distinct category of world literature.

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