Translating Orients: Between Ideology and Utopia

✍ Scribed by Timothy Weiss

Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 259
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

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

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