Tag: Orientalism

Free Download Richard van Leeuwen, "The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800: Antoine Galland, Ghisbert Cuper and Gilber"
English | ISBN: 946298879X | 2019 | 176 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Antoine Galland’s French translation of the Thousand and One Nights appeared in 1704. One year later a pirate edition was printed in The Hague, followed by many others. Galland entertained a lively correspondence on the subject with the Dutch intellectual and statesman Gisbert Cuper (1644-1716). Dutch orientalists privately owned editions of the *Nights* and discreetly collected manuscripts of Arabic fairy tales. In 1719 the Nights were first retranslated into Dutch by the wealthy Amsterdam silk merchant and financier Gilbert de Flines (Amsterdam 1690-London 1739). The Thousand and One Nights and Orientalism in the Dutch Republic, 1700-1800: Antoine Galland, Ghisbert Cuper and Gilbert de Flines explores not only the trail of the French and Dutch editions from the eighteenth century Dutch Republic and the role of the printers and illustrators, but also the mixed sentiments of embarrassment and appreciation, and the overall literary impact of the

Free Download Julia Caterina Hartley, "Iran and French Orientalism: Persia in the Literary Culture of Nineteenth-Century France"
English | ISBN: 0755645596 | 2023 | 298 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 49 MB
New translations of Persian literature into French, the invention of the Aryan myth, increased travel between France and Iran, and the unveiling of artefacts from ancient Susa at the Louvre Museum are among the factors that radically altered France’s perception of Iran during the long nineteenth century. And this is reflected in the literary culture of the period. In an ambitious study spanning poetry, historiography, fiction, travel-writing, ballet, opera, and marionette theatre, Julia Hartley reveals the unique place that Iran held in the French literary imagination between 1829 and 1912. Iran’s history and culture remained a constant source of inspiration across different generations and artistic movements, from the ‘Oriental’ poems of Victor Hugo to those of Anna de Noailles and Théophile Gautier’s strategic citation of Persian poetry to his daughter Judith Gautier’s full-blown rewriting of a Persian epic. Writing about Iran could also serve to articulate new visions of world history and religion, as was the case in the intellectual debates that took place between Michelet, Renan, and Al-Afghani. Alternatively joyous, as in Félicien David’s opera

Free Download Re-orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics: The Oriental Other Within By Lisa Lau; Ana Cristina Mendes
2011 | 162 Pages | ISBN: 0415599024 | PDF | 2 MB
Orientalism refers to the imitation of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West, and was devised in order to have authority over the Orient. The concept of Re-Orientalism maintains the divide between the Orient and the West. However, where Orientalism is based on how the West constructs the East, Re-Orientalism is grounded on how the cultural East comes to terms with an orientalised East. This book explores various new forms, objects and modes of circulation that sustain this renovated form of Orientalism in South Asian culture. The contributors identify and engage with recent debates about postcolonial South Asian identity politics, discussing a range of different texts and films such as The White Tiger, Bride & Prejudice and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. Providing new theoretical insights from the areas of literature, film studies and cultural and discourse analysis, this book is an stimulating read for students and scholars interested in South Asian culture, postcolonial studies and identity politics.

Free Download Beyond Orientalism: Ahmad ibn Qasim al-Hajari between Europe and North Africa by Oumelbanine Nina Zhiri
English | September 5, 2023 | ISBN: 0520390458 | 322 pages | PDF | 16 Mb
The first in-depth study of the collaborative intellectual exchange between the European and the Arabic Republics of Letters.

Free Download A L Macfie, "Orientalism: A Reader"
English | ISBN: 0748614419 | 2000 | 382 pages | PDF | 22 MB
This volume provides the student with a selection of readings from 19th and 20th-century debates on Orientalism – the theory and practice of representing the Orient in European thought – covering a range of areas including myth, imperialism, the cultural perspective, Marxist interpretation and feminist attitudes.

Free Download Hsu-Ming Teo, "Desert Passions: Orientalism and Romance Novels"
English | 2012 | pages: 355 | ISBN: 0292739389, 0292756909 | PDF | 21,2 mb
The Sheik-E. M. Hull’s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino-kindled "sheik fever" across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically "Oriental" swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments.

Free Download Maria Taroutina, "Russian Orientalism in a global context: Hybridity, encounter, and representation, 1740-1940 "
English | ISBN: 1526166232 | 2023 | 312 pages | PDF | 65 MB
This volume features new research on Russia’s historic relationship with Asia and the ways it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet rule. It interrogates how Russia’s perception of its position on the periphery of the west and its simultaneous self-consciousness as a colonial power shaped its artistic, cultural and national identity as a heterogenous, multi-ethnic empire. It also explores the extent to which cultural practitioners participated in the discursive matrices that advanced Russia’s colonial machinery on the one hand and critiqued and challenged it on the other, especially in territories that were themselves on the fault lines between the east and the west.

Free Download Lynne M. Swarts, "Gender, Orientalism and the Jewish Nation: Women in the Work of Ephraim Moses Lilien at the German Fin de Siècle"
English | ISBN: 1501336142 | 2020 | 368 pages | PDF | 20 MB
Ephraim Moses Lilien (1874-1925) was one of the most important Jewish artists of modern times. As a successful illustrator, photographer, painter and printer, he became the first major Zionist artist. Surprisingly there has been little in-depth scholarly research and analysis of Lilien’s work available in English, making this book an important contribution to historical and art-historical scholarship.

Free Download Sharmani Patricia Gabriel, "Orientalism and Reverse Orientalism in Literature and Film "
English | ISBN: 0367615223 | 2021 | 234 pages | PDF | 15 MB
Acknowledging the significance of Edward Said’s Orientalism for contemporary discourse, the contributors to this volume deconstruct, rearrange, and challenge elements of his thesis, looking at the new conditions and opportunities offered by globalization.