Translating Orients: Between Ideology and Utopia

Timothy Weiss

Published by University of Toronto Press 2004

Translating Orients

Between Ideology and Utopia

Timothy Weiss

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442682757

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About this book

Weiss examines texts that reference Asian, North African, or Middle Eastern societies and their imaginaries, and, equally important, engage questions of individual and communal identity that issue from transformative encounters.

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Weiss Timothy :

Timothy Weiss is a professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Borges's Search, or the Bibliophilic Orient Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. 'Without Stopping': The Orient as Liminal Space in Paul Bowles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. The Living Labyrinth: Hong Kong and David T.K Wong's Hong Kong Stories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
4. Where Is Place? Locale and Identity in Kazua Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans and Ricardo Piglia's La ciudad ausente Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
5. At the End of East/West: Myth in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
6. Identity and Citizenship in a World of Shame Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Neither Subjects nor Objects: In the Middle Way Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
BIBLIOGRAPHY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 270

eBook

Published: April 20, 2004
ISBN: 9781442682757