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Returning the gaze : the manichean drama of postcolonial exoticism
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ISBN: 9783034318686 3034318685 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford : Peter Lang,

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This book is proposed as a contribution to postcolonial critiques of the colonial and postcolonial exotic. It investigates the exotic as a representation of colonial cultural difference in colonial discourse, culture and history, and its oppositional rewritings in postcolonial thought and literature.


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Returning the gaze : the Manichean drama of postcolonial exoticism
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ISBN: 3035396922 3035306915 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford, [England] : Peter Lang,

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This book is proposed as a contribution to postcolonial critiques of the colonial and postcolonial exotic. It investigates the exotic as a representation of colonial cultural difference in colonial discourse, culture and history, and its oppositional rewritings in postcolonial thought and literature. Its analyses of the exotic include classical Arabo-Islamic ethnographic texts, Marco Polo's and Mandeville's travel accounts, Shakespeare's The Tempest, Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes, and a variety of colonial and postcolonial texts. Its Deconstructive approach to the exotic breaks new grounds of

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