Modernism's Middle East: Journeys to Barbary

ISBN-13: 9780230209534 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 211 str.

Joanna Grant

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.