Literary Orientalism, postcolonialism, and universalism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Al-Dabbagh, Abdulla
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Peter Lang, [2010]
Series:	Postcolonial studies (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 9.
Subjects:	Orient > In literature. Orientalism in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. East and West in literature. European literature > History and criticism. English literature > History and criticism.

Table of Contents:

Orientalism, literary Orientalism and romanticism
The Oriental roots of the picaresque
Orientalism and literary translation
The Oriental sources of courtly love
The Orient, the other and the novel
Going native: Conrad and postcolonial discourse
Modern universalism and the myth of Westernness
Globalism and the universal language: some lessons from the past
Language, truth, and logic in the age of globalism and the discourse of civilizations
Colonialism, postcolonialism, and anti-colonialism: a closer look at the false rhetoric of freedom.