{"product_id":"critical-terrains-french-and-british-orientalisms-paperback-softback-9781501728051","title":"Critical Terrains; French and British Orientalisms (Paperback \/ softback) 9781501728051","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCritical Terrains\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFrench and British Orientalisms\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLisa Lowe (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781501728051\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 15 August 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA lucid and important feminist contribution to the study of orientalism. Lowe's study is particularly valuable on the issues of gender and sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e (Times Higher Education Supplement) \u003cp\u003eLowe offers a helpful analysis of the ways in which West European texts represent the subordinate Other, those non-European societies and cultures defeated by European empire and figured in a vocabulary of gender and race.\u003c\/p\u003e (Choice)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamining and historicizing the concept of \"otherness\" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's \u003ci\u003eTurkish Embassy Letters \u003c\/i\u003eand Montesquieu's \u003ci\u003eLettres persanes\u003c\/i\u003e and discusses tropes of orientalism, racialism, and romanticism in Flaubert. She then turns to debates in Anglo-American and Indian criticism on Forster's \u003ci\u003ePassage to India\u003c\/i\u003e and on the utopian projection of China in the poststructuralist theories of Julia Kristeva and Roland Barthes and in the journal \u003ci\u003eTel Quel\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676656267544,"sku":"9781501728051","price":15.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/critical-terrains-french-and-british-orientalisms-paperback-softback-9781501728051","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}