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The paths of multiculturalism : travel writings and postcolonialism
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ISBN: 9727622062 9789727622061 Year: 2000 Publisher: Lisboa Cosmos

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Gewalt in der Moderne : Kulturwahrnehmung, Narration, Identität
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ISBN: 9783828823617 3828823610 Year: 2010 Publisher: Marburg : Tectum,

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Apostles of modernity : American writers in the age of development
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ISBN: 1281733970 9786611733971 0803216467 9780803216464 0803213778 9780803213777 9781281733979 6611733973 Year: 2008 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,

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Apostles of Modernity offers an original, in-depth study of the literary manifestations of this period of globalism in novels, memoirs, essays, reportage, and political commentary. Through close readings of texts Reynolds revisits and reassesses U.S. internationalism, showing how writers and intellectuals engaged with a cluster of topics: decolonization, the rise of the Third World, Islamic difference, the end of European empires, China's enduring significance, and transatlantic and cosmopolitan identities. Throughout, the ideals of the United States as ""apostle of modernity"" and sponsor of

Fair exotics : xenophobic subjects in English literature, 1720-1850
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ISBN: 0812236564 0812203763 Year: 2002 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Arguing that the major hallmarks of Romantic literature-inwardness, emphasis on subjectivity, the individual authorship of selves and texts-were forged during the Enlightenment, Rajani Sudan traces the connections between literary sensibility and British encounters with those persons, ideas, and territories that lay uneasily beyond the national border. The urge to colonize and discover embraced both an interest in foreign "fair exotics" and a deeply rooted sense of their otherness. Fair Exotics develops a revisionist reading of the period of the British Enlightenment and Romanticism, an age during which England was most aggressively building its empire. By looking at canonical texts, including Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Johnson's Dictionary, De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater, and Bronte's Villette, Sudan shows how the imaginative subject is based on a sense of exoticism created by a pervasive fear of what is foreign. Indeed, as Sudan clarifies, xenophobia is the underpinning not only of nationalism and imperialism but of Romantic subjectivity as well.


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Exotic spaces in German modernism
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ISBN: 9780199604128 0199604126 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,


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Vers une histoire littéraire transatlantique.
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ISSN: 21035636 ISBN: 9782406077459 2406077454 9782406077466 2406077462 Year: 2018 Volume: 336 24 Publisher: Paris Classiques Garnier


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Ethnography after antiquity : foreign lands and peoples in Byzantine literature
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ISBN: 9780812245318 0812245318 1322512795 0812208404 Year: 2013 Volume: *3 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.-a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantines, geographically located at the heart of the upheavals that led from the ancient to the modern world, had abundant and sophisticated knowledge of the cultures with which they struggled and bargained. Ethnography After Antiquity examines both the instances and omissions of Byzantine ethnography, exploring the political and religious motivations for writing (or not writing) about other peoples. Through the ethnographies embedded in classical histories, military manuals, Constantine VII's De administrando imperio, and religious literature, Anthony Kaldellis shows Byzantine authors using accounts of foreign cultures as vehicles to critique their own state or to demonstrate Romano-Christian superiority over Islam. He comes to the startling conclusion that the Byzantines did not view cultural differences through a purely theological prism: their Roman identity, rather than their orthodoxy, was the vital distinction from cultures they considered heretic and barbarian. Filling in the previously unexplained gap between antiquity and the resurgence of ethnography in the late Byzantine period, Ethnography After Antiquity offers new perspective on how Byzantium positioned itself with and against the dramatically shifting world.


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Visionary Journeys : Travel Writings from Early Medieval and Nineteenth-Century China
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ISBN: 9780674062528 0674062523 1684170621 9781684170623 Year: 2012 Volume: 78 Publisher: Boston : Leiden; Boston : Harvard University Asia Center BRILL

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Displacement (Psychology) in literature. --- Foreign countries in literature. --- Travelers' writings, Chinese --- Visualization in literature. --- S03/0210 --- S03/0300 --- China: Geography, description and travel--Chinese geography, description and travels: before 1840 --- China: Geography, description and travel--Geography: 1840 - 1949 --- Chinese --- Literature and history --- Travel in literature. --- Historiography. --- History --- History and criticism. --- Geschichte. --- China --- Civilization --- Foreign influences. --- Displacement (Psychology) in literature --- Foreign countries in literature --- Travel in literature --- Visualization in literature --- Historiography --- History and criticism --- Chinese travelers' writings --- Chinese literature --- Voyages and travels in literature --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- Ethnology --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- )

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