Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-1-5015-1791-4 (ISBN)
Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction.
Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the "Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind – the World, the Flesh and the Devil – reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day "freedom fighters."
Liliana Sikorska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1
Introduction: “For so in Travailing in One Country he shall sucke the Experience of many.” Reading the Orient in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives and Historical Works
Chapter 1: From Oriental to Orientalist: Contact and Conflict in Culture and Literature
Chapter 2: Al-Ifranij among the Believers, or the Victorian Quest Romance(d)
Chapter 3: Under Western Eyes: The Discourses of/on History
Part 2
Introduction: “The dark reservoir of hurt and hate” in Contemporary Literature in English
Chapter 4: Dar Al-Hijira, or the World Of Immigration
Chapter 5: Arabian (K)nights: On Terrorists and Tyrants
Chapter 6: Through the Looking Glass: Ajanabee in Arabia
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Names and Terms
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.08.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 505 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| Schlagworte | Historische Berichte • Orientalismus • Reiseberichte • Sarazenen |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5015-1791-0 / 1501517910 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5015-1791-4 / 9781501517914 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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