Translating Orients : Between Ideology and Utopia.
Weiss examines texts that reference Asian, North African, or Middle Eastern societies and their imaginaries, and, equally important, engage questions of individual and communal identity that issue from transformative encounters.
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| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2014
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- PREFACE; Introduction; 1 Borges's Search, or the Bibliophilic Orient; 2 'Without Stopping': The Orient as Liminal Space in Paul Bowles; 3 The Living Labyrinth: Hong Kong and David T.K Wong's Hong Kong Stories; 4 Where Is Place? Locale and Identity in Kazua Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and Ricardo Piglia's La ciudad ausente; 5 At the End of East/West: Myth in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh; 6 Identity and Citizenship in a World of Shame; Neither Subjects nor Objects: In the Middle Way; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V.
