Avant-garde Orientalism The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Tra
This 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
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Avant-garde Orientalism
David LeHardy Sweet
Avant-garde Orientalism The Eastern ‘Other’ in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry
David LeHardy Sweet English Pace University New York, New York, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-50372-1 ISBN 978-3-319-50373-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50373-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017930253 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
For my father, mother, and brothers, and my beloved wife, Gianna Canh Ty Quach
Acknowledgments
Though first undertaken in the prime of my professional life, the research and writing of this study overlapped with a second, more difficult stage in my career, the circumstances of which are typical for many part-time faculty in the United States who find themselves trapped in underpaid, untenured positions in our new, uninsured, freelance economy. Given such conditions, my gratitude to those who assisted or inspired me in the course of writing this study is deeply felt. The germ of its idea goes back to my days in graduate school at Columbia University in New York where I wrote the dissertation that would eventually become my first book, Savage Sight/Constructed Noise: Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-gardes (2003). My interest at that time in writing a comparative study of twentieth-century French and American poets laid the groundwork for my interest in the Avant-garde as a loosely cohesive international phenomenon involved in formal experiments that questioned assumptions behind
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