Author: Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 856
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The Speaker
Author: Paper Covered Books
Author: Warren Elbridge PricePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Occidentalism
Author: Xiaomei ChenPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847698752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This revised and expanded edition of the first comprehensive study of Occidentalism in post-Mao China includes a new preface, foreword, and chapter on Chinese diaspora writings in the Chinese language. Xiaomei Chen offers an insightful account of the unremittingly favorable depiction of Western culture and its negative characterization of Chinese culture in post-Mao China since 1978. She examines the cultural and political interrelationship between the East and West from a vantage point more complex than that accommodated by most current theories of Western imperialism and colonialism. Going beyond Edward Said's construction in Orientalism of cross-cultural appropriations as a defining facet of Western imperialism, Chen argues that the appropriation of Western discourse--what she calls "Occidentalism"--can actually have a politically and ideologically liberating effect on contemporary non-Western culture. She maintains that simplistic allegations of Orientalism frequently found in current critical discourses seriously underestimate the complexities of intercultural and multicultural relationships. Using China as the focus of her analysis, Chen examines a variety of cultural media, from Shakespearean drama, to modernist poetry, to contemporary Chinese television and popular fiction. She thus places sinology in the general context of Western theoretical discourses, such as Eurocentrism, postcolonialism, nationalism, modernism, feminism, and literary hermeneutics, showing that it has a vital role to play in the study of Orient and Occident and their now unavoidable symbiotic relationship. Occidentalism presents a new model of comparative literary and cultural studies that reenvisions cross-cultural appropriation. It will be indispensable to future discussions of Orientalism, Occidentalism, and postcolonialism, as well as subaltern studies, Asian studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and non-Western drama.
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Author: Studies in the Psychology of Sex
Author: Havelock EllisAnalysis of the Sexual Impulse
Author: Havelock EllisCormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament
Author: Matthew L. PottsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 150133073X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
"Reconceives the moral significance of Cormac McCarthy's novels through a constructive engagement with postmodern theory and Christian theology"--
Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Analysis of the sexual impulse, love and pain, the sexual impulse in women
Author: Havelock EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paraphilias
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Crabb's English Synonyms
Author: George CrabbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Crabb's English Synonymes
Author: George CrabbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 744
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