Eastern Figures – Orient and Empire in British Writing

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Av Douglas Kerr, Professor in the School o Kerr, Douglas

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Eastern Figures is a literary history with a difference. It examines British writing about the East - centred on India but radiating as far as Egypt and the Pacific - in the colonial and postcolonial period.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-06-01
Mått158 x 232 x 139 mm
Vikt562 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor266
FörlagHong Kong University Press
ISBN9789622099340

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This fine study represents a rich distillation of Douglas Kerr's career-long study of the modalities of the East: the crowd, the implacable face, the contact zone. Readings of Kipling, Forster and Orwell, but also of less familiar writers such as Auden, Maud Diver, and Alfred Russel Wallace carefully interrogate settled ideas of the Orient as predictable and unfissured, and maintain a sustained literary focus throughout. -- Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, Oxford University