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Asian Voyages - Two Thousand Years of Constructing the Other

English · Hardback

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Dathorne pursues the phenomenon of encounter or contact as it relates to China and the Pacific Islands.

List of contents










Preface
The West and the Rest
Legends of Early Conquest
Conquerors and Pilgrims
The Mongols as Others Saw Them
China and Africa: Mutual Discoveries
China's "Discovery" of Africa
Through Arab and Muslim Eyes
Imagining China
Taboo, Tattoo and Pacific Encounters
Imagining the Pacific
Pacific Fictions
East Is West
Afterword
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index


About the author










O. R. DATHORNE is Professor of English at the University of Kentucky and founder and director of the Association of Caribbean Studies. A native of Guyana, Dathorne represents a postcolonialist viewpoint, marginalized by majority discourse. He has taught at four African universities and five American universities, including Yale. He is a prolific novelist and poet and the author of more than fifteen books, including The Black Mind (1974), Dark Ancestor (1981), Dele's Child (1986), In Europe's Image (Bergin & Garvey, 1994) and Imagining the World (Bergin & Garvey, 1994).

Product details

Authors O. Dathorne, O. R. Dathorne
Publisher Bloomsbury
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 22.07.1996
 
EAN 9780897894692
ISBN 978-0-89789-469-2
Subjects Travel > Travel guides > World, Arctic, Antarctic

Asia, HISTORY / Asia / General, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, world history, Asian History

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