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Thematology --- Hugo, Victor --- Orient dans la littérature --- Orient in literature --- Oriënt in de literatuur

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Drawing on Buddhist thought and offering, in part, a response to Edward Said's classic work in the same field, Translating Orients re-interprets Orientalism and shows the vital presence of the Orient in twentieth century and contemporary world literatures. Defining Orients as neither subjects nor objects but realities that emerge through translational acts, Timothy Weiss argues that all interpretation can be viewed as translations that contain utopian as well as ideological aspects. The translational approach to literary and cultural interpretations adds depth to Weiss's analysis of works by Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, and Kazua Ishiguro, among others. 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. Interpretation is thus viewed as an act that orients, mapping the world not in the sense of delineating a pre-given form, location, or order, but rather as a charting of its emergence and possibilities. In addressing the principal challenges of contemporary critical thinking, fundamentalism, and groundlessness, Weiss puts forward new concepts of identity and citizenship in the reinterpretation of Orientalism.

Literature, Modern --- Oriental literature --- History and criticism. --- Orient --- In literature. --- Asian literature --- Orient in literature. --- Mill, John Stuart, --- 穆勒

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French literature --- History and criticism. --- Orient dans la littérature --- Orient in literature --- Oriënt in de literatuur --- 20th century --- History and criticism

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This is the first book to provide a synthesising study of Russian writing about the Caucasus during the nineteenth-century age of empire-building. From Pushkin's ambivalent portrayal of an alpine Circassia to Tolstoy's condemnation of tsarist aggression against Muslim tribes in Hadji Murat, the literary analysis is firmly set in its historical context, and the responses of the Russian readership too receive extensive attention. As well as exploring literature as such, this study introduces material from travelogues, oriental studies, ethnography, memoirs, and the utterances of tsarist officials and military commanders. While showing how literature often underwrote imperialism, the book carefully explores the tensions between the Russian state's ideology of a European mission to civilise the Muslim mountaineers, and romantic perceptions of those tribes as noble primitives whose extermination was no cause for celebration. By dealing with imperialism in Georgia as well, the study shows how the varied treatment of the Caucasus in literature helped Russians construct a satisfying identity for themselves as a semi-European, semi-Asian people.

Orient dans la littérature --- Orient in literature --- Oriënt in de literatuur --- Romanticism --- Russian literature --- History and criticism. --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Russia --- Relations --- Caucasus --- Caucasus - In literature. --- Orient - In literature. --- Russia - Relations - Caucasus. --- Caucasus - Relations - Russia. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Orient --- In literature. --- Caucasia --- Caucasus Mountains --- Caucasus Region --- Kavkaz --- Russie --- Rossīi︠a︡ --- Rossīĭskai︠a︡ Imperīi︠a︡ --- Russia (Provisional government, 1917) --- Russia (Vremennoe pravitelʹstvo, 1917) --- Russland --- Ṛusastan --- Russia (Tymchasovyĭ uri︠a︡d, 1917) --- Russian Empire --- Rosja --- Russian S.F.S.R. --- Russia (Territory under White armies, 1918-1920)

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Thematology --- Middle East --- Orient dans la littérature --- Orient in literature --- Oriënt in de literatuur --- French literature --- History and criticism. --- European literature --- 19th century --- Themes, motives --- 20th century --- French literature - 19th century - History and criticism. --- French literature - 20th century - History and criticism.