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| The Dialectics of Orientalism in Early Modern Europe
ISBN: 9781137462367
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: History;
Uniting twelve original studies by scholars of early modern history, literature, and the arts, this collection is the first that foregrounds the dialectical quality of early modern Orientalism by taking a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Dialectics of Orientalism demonstrates how texts and images of the sixteenth and seventeenth century from across Europe and the New World are better understood as part of a dynamic and transformative orientalist discourse rather than a manifestation of the supposed dichotomy between the 'East' and the 'West.' The volume's central claim is that early modern orientalist discourses are fundamentally open, self-critical, and creative. Analyzing a varied corpus-from German and Dutch travelogues to Spanish humanist treaties, French essays, Flemish paintings, and English diaries-this collection thus breathes fresh air into the critique of Orientalism and provides productive new perspectives for the study of east-west and indeed globalized exchanges in the early modern world.
Marcus Keller is Associate Professor of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. In his research he focuses on sixteenth and seventeenth-century French literature and culture. He is the author of Figurations of France: Literary Nation-Building in Times of Crisis (1550-1650) (2011) and editor of The Turk of Early Modern France (2013). Javier Irigoyen-García is Associate Professor of Spanish Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research focuses on the representation of race and ethnicity in early modern Spain. He has published The Spanish Arcadia: Sheep Herding, Pastoral Discourse, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Spain (2013) and the forthcoming "Moors Dressed as Moors": Clothing, Social Distinction, and Ethnicity in Early Modern Iberia . |
