TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weiss,Timothy
TI  - Translating Orients: Between Ideology and Utopia
SN  - 9781442682757
AV  - PR129.O75 W43 2004 
U1  - 809/.93325/0904 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Literature, Modern-20th century-History and criticism
KW  - Oriental literature-20th century-History and criticism
KW  - Orient-In literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
N2  - 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
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