Avant-Garde Orientalism: The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry

By David LeHardy Sweet

Book Overview

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction

Avant-garde offensive

Avant-garde orientalism, or a visionary exoticism

Discontinuous itineraries

2. The Poetics of Travel, Postcolonial Criticism, and the Theory of the Avant-Garde

Travel theory's assimilation of postcolonial method: MacCannell, Said

The Derridean inflection and the emergence of the hybrid: Spivak, Bhabha

Global ideoscapes, postmodern tourists, and postmillennial reconsiderations:

Appadurai, Kaplan, Almond

Theorists of the Avant-Garde: Poggioli, B?rger, Horkheimer and Adorno

3. A Literary Genealogy of Avant-garde Orientalism

Romanticist origins of avant-garde orientalism

Mann's Venice as fatal gateway to the East

Kafka's French Algerian penal colony

Tearing up the colonies: arbitrary arbiters and itinerant marginals in Genet and

Duras

Split

4. The Maghreb and Tangier

A hermeneutics of aggression and reciprocity

From pastoral to horror: Gide and Bowles in the Maghreb

"Innaresting sexual arrangement" William Burroughs takes Tangier

5. Egypt and Palestine

Fecundity of the dead: Cocteau meets the pharaohs

Muscular impotence: Marinetti's futurist Egypt

Durrell's Alexandria

Pynchon's Baedeker farce and the automata of empire

A Bengali Indian in Egypt: Amitav Ghosh's medieval alternative

The songs of the fedayeen: Saint Genet among the lions

6. India

Disembodied India: Frederic Prokosch's The Asiatics

Barbarian sightings: the Lacanian subject of Henri Michaux

A labyrinth of multitudes: Octavio Paz's embassy to the outcastes

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319843834
• ISBN13: 9783319843834
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"