Modernism''s Middle East - Journeys to Barbary

Informationen zum Autor JOANNA GRANT is Assistant Professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Education at Tuskegee University, USA. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals. Klappentext Dealing with the efforts of modernists to effect increasingly fraught identifications with an image of the hard, impersonal 'Arab Other' which they saw in contrast to a decadent Western culture, this book shows how this fantasy became more difficult as its popularity grew but also how it still persists. Zusammenfassung Dealing with the efforts of modernists to effect increasingly fraught identifications with an image of the hard! impersonal 'Arab Other' which they saw in contrast to a decadent Western culture! this book shows how this fantasy became more difficult as its popularity grew but also how it still persists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Journeys to Barbary: Modernism's Middle East Modernism and the Sense(s) of an Ending They Came to Baghdad: Woolf and Sackville-West's Levant Charisma at the Box Office; or, Orientalism Strikes Back What Lies Beyond the Sheltering Sky? Bibliography Index

List of contents

Introduction: Journeys to Barbary: Modernism's Middle East Modernism and the Sense(s) of an Ending They Came to Baghdad: Woolf and Sackville-West's Levant Charisma at the Box Office; or, Orientalism Strikes Back What Lies Beyond the Sheltering Sky? Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: J Grant, J. Grant, Joanna Grant
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2008
• EAN: 9780230209534
• ISBN: 978-0-230-20953-4
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); B, Literature, Fiction & related items, Cultural Studies, Fiction, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, World Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Ethnology—Middle East, Middle Eastern Culture, Fiction Literature, Postcolonial/World Literature, Middle Eastern Literature