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This collection of essays is dedicated to examining the recent literary phenomenon of the 'neo-historical' novel, a sub-genre of contemporary historical fiction which deliberately and self-consciously re-imagines specific periods of history. The contributions reveal how, although set in the past, neo-historical fiction is very much aimed at answering the needs and preoccupations of the present, and discuss the extent to which, as a result, its representation of one historical period for consumption by another can at times rely on 'exoticizing' strategies. Yet, as the essays in this collection demonstrate, the neo-historical novel can also offer a powerful means of contesting the very exoticist drives it seems to perpetuate, through a process of historical re-appropriation and re-articulation which simultaneously brings to light and challenges persisting cultural misconceptions about the past.

Historical fiction --- Exoticism in literature. --- Literary criticism --- History and criticism. --- European --- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. --- General.

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Latin Americans in motion pictures --- Hispanic Americans in motion pictures --- Exoticism in motion pictures --- Minorities in motion pictures --- Emigration and immigration in motion pictures

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Focusing on travel journals by writers, navigators, philosophers, scientists, and anthropologists--from the eighteenth-century grand tour to the modern period--Dennis Porter explores how male authors at different historical moments conceptualized and represented the lands they encountered. Efforts to portray unfamiliar peoples and cultures are shown to give rise to rich and complex works, in which individual psychic investments frequently subvert an inherited cultural discourse. In exploring the various uses and pleasures of travel, Porter interprets it as a transgressive activity animated by desire and haunted by different forms of guilt.Broad in its historical scope and interdisciplinary in its approach, the book draws on literary theory, psychoanalysis, gender criticism, and the social history of ideas. Texts analyzed include works by Boswell, Diderot, Bougainville, Cook, Stendhal, Darwin, Flaubert, Freud, D. H. Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Gide, Lvi-Strauss, Barthes, and V. S. Naipaul.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Travelers' writings, European --- European literature --- Authors, European --- Travel writing --- Exoticism in literature --- Travel in literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- European travelers' writings --- Voyages and travels in literature --- European authors --- History and criticism --- Travel --- History --- Exoticism in literature. --- Travel in literature. --- Travel. --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Thematology --- Comparative literature --- Authors, European -- Travel. --- European literature -- History and criticism. --- Travel writing -- History. --- Travelers'' writings, European -- History and criticism.

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Cabala --- Yoga. --- Judaism --- Hinduism --- Mysticism --- History. --- Relations --- Hinduism. --- Judaism. --- the cultural and historical dimensions of religious exoticism --- identity --- universalizing and de-contextualizing exotic religious resources --- bricolage --- the psychologization of exotic religious resources --- the social significance of self-realization --- the 'new petite bourgeoisie' --- Kabbalah --- neo-Hindu movements --- yoga --- meditation --- Shamanism --- Buddhism --- Sufism --- religious life in neoliberal societies

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At the heart of every colonial encounter lies an act of translation. Once dismissed as a derivative process, the new cultural turn in translation studies has opened the field to dynamic considerations of the contexts that shape translations and that, in turn, reveal translation’s truer function as a locus of power. In Imperial Babel, Padma Rangarajan explores translation’s complex role in shaping literary and political relationships between India and Britain. Unlike other readings that cast colonial translation as primarily a tool for oppression, Rangarajan’s argues that translation changed both colonizer and colonized and undermined colonial hegemony as much as it abetted it. Imperial Babel explores the diverse political and cultural consequences of a variety of texts, from eighteenth-century oriental tales to mystic poetry of the fin de siecle and from translation proper to its ethnological, mythographic, and religious variants. Searching for translation’s trace enables a broader, more complex understanding of intellectual exchange in imperial culture as well as a more nuanced awareness of the dialectical relationship between colonial policy and nineteenth-century literature. Rangarajan argues that while bearing witness to the violence that underwrites translation in colonial spaces, we should also remain open to the irresolution of translation, its unfixed nature, and its ability to transform both languages in which it works.

LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Indic. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. --- Intertextuality. --- Semiotics and literature. --- Imperialism in literature. --- English literature --- Indic literature --- Translating and interpreting --- Literature and semiotics --- Literature --- Criticism --- Semiotics --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Interpretation and translation --- Interpreting and translating --- Language and languages --- Translation and interpretation --- Translators --- East Indian literature --- Indian literature (East Indian) --- Indo-Aryan literature --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History. --- Translating --- Colonialism. --- Exoticism. --- India. --- Oriental Tale. --- Orientalism. --- Victorian Literature. --- imperialism. --- romanticism. --- translation.