{"product_id":"9783319843834","title":"Avant-garde Orientalism: The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry","description":"\u003ch1\u003eAvant-garde Orientalism: The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eSweet, David LeHardy\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis study explores the work of Western avant-garde writers who traveled to and wrote about Asia and North Africa. Though exoticist in outlook, many of these writers were also anti-colonialist and thus avoided some of the pitfalls of academic orientalism by assuming an aesthetics of diversity while employing strategies of provocation and reciprocity. As a survey of works on travel (including essays, novels, poems, and plays), the book challenges or modifies many postcolonial assumptions about Western writers on the Orient: from the French Surrealists to the American Beats and even transnational authors of the new millennium. Through a synthesis of avant-garde, postcolonial, and travel literature theories, \u003ci\u003eAvant-garde Orientalism \u003c\/i\u003eworks in the best tradition of comparative literary study to identify and analyze a distinct category of world literature.   \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Palgrave Macmillan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2018-07-13\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9783319843834\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-3-319-50373-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 210cm x148cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 318\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47525350146188,"sku":"9783319843834","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783319843834.jpg?v=1776023942","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9783319843834","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}