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Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Postcolonialism and Religions SeriesPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (315 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781137405029
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, PowersLOC classification:
  • BL41
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Recovering Oriental Perspectives on the WestIraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards -- Part I Western and Eastern Europe -- 1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Eastern Orthodoxy, andthe Crystal Palace -- 2 The Moor's First Sight:An Arab Poet in a Ninth-CenturyViking Court -- Part II Northern Africa andWestern Asia -- 3 Ubeydullah Effendi in theUnited States: The Impressionsof an Ottoman Intellectualregarding the 1893 ChicagoWorld's Fair -- 4 Imperial Narratives: IslamicConcepts of Inclusion andExclusion in Ibn Fadlan's Accountof His Mission to the Bulgars -- 5 Two Muslim Travelers to theWest in the Nineteenth Century -- Part III Southern Asia -- 6 AJAIBĀT-E-FARANG: YousufKhan Kambalposh'sMetropolitan Journey andWays of Seeing the West -- 7 The International ColourLine Has Been Challenged":Solidarity Networks in IndianTravel Narratives -- 8 Reactions of Two BengaliWomen Travelers: KrishnobhabiniDas and Chitrita Devi -- Part IV Eastern and South-Eastern Asia -- 9 Chinese Culture and WesternTechnology: Qi Zhaoxi's Writingsabout the United States -- 10 Balinese Art, Religion, andCommunity in the Netherlands -- 11 Shigetsu Sasaki: Zen Vagabond inthe United States -- 12 Un-canning the Canny:McDonald's Japan and theMr. James Saga Edward K. Chan -- Conclusion Religion, Transculturalism, and Consciousness Anne R. Richards -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: This book explores centuries of power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by eastern travelers to the West. Considered in depth are evolutions in mental frameworks and practices that led to the emergence of anticolonial consciousness and strategies of protest.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Recovering Oriental Perspectives on the WestIraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards -- Part I Western and Eastern Europe -- 1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky,Eastern Orthodoxy, andthe Crystal Palace -- 2 The Moor's First Sight:An Arab Poet in a Ninth-CenturyViking Court -- Part II Northern Africa andWestern Asia -- 3 Ubeydullah Effendi in theUnited States: The Impressionsof an Ottoman Intellectualregarding the 1893 ChicagoWorld's Fair -- 4 Imperial Narratives: IslamicConcepts of Inclusion andExclusion in Ibn Fadlan's Accountof His Mission to the Bulgars -- 5 Two Muslim Travelers to theWest in the Nineteenth Century -- Part III Southern Asia -- 6 AJAIBĀT-E-FARANG: YousufKhan Kambalposh'sMetropolitan Journey andWays of Seeing the West -- 7 The International ColourLine Has Been Challenged":Solidarity Networks in IndianTravel Narratives -- 8 Reactions of Two BengaliWomen Travelers: KrishnobhabiniDas and Chitrita Devi -- Part IV Eastern and South-Eastern Asia -- 9 Chinese Culture and WesternTechnology: Qi Zhaoxi's Writingsabout the United States -- 10 Balinese Art, Religion, andCommunity in the Netherlands -- 11 Shigetsu Sasaki: Zen Vagabond inthe United States -- 12 Un-canning the Canny:McDonald's Japan and theMr. James Saga Edward K. Chan -- Conclusion Religion, Transculturalism, and Consciousness Anne R. Richards -- Contributors -- Index.

This book explores centuries of power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by eastern travelers to the West. Considered in depth are evolutions in mental frameworks and practices that led to the emergence of anticolonial consciousness and strategies of protest.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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