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Translating Orients : Between Ideology and Utopia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442682757
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Translating OrientsDDC classification:
  • 809/.93325/0904
LOC classification:
  • PR129.O75 W43 2004
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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