Overview

Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods. Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction. Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the ""Oriental obsession,"" stimulating dread and resentment, and even more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East. Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind – the World, the Flesh and the Devil – reappear in different contexts: the world of immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the present-day ""freedom fighters.""

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Author:   Liliana Sikorska
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter
Weight:   0.505kg
ISBN:  

9781501517914

ISBN 10:   1501517910
Pages:   263
Publication Date:   22 November 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Part 1 Introduction: “For so in Travailing in One Country he shall sucke the Experience of many.” Reading the Orient in Nineteenth-Century Travel Narratives and Historical Works Chapter 1: From Oriental to Orientalist: Contact and Conflict in Culture and Literature Chapter 2: Al-Ifranij among the Believers, or the Victorian Quest Romance(d) Chapter 3: Under Western Eyes: The Discourses of/on History Part 2 Introduction: “The dark reservoir of hurt and hate” in Contemporary Literature in English Chapter 4: Dar Al-Hijira, or the World Of Immigration Chapter 5: Arabian (K)nights: On Terrorists and Tyrants Chapter 6: Through the Looking Glass: Ajanabee in Arabia Conclusion Bibliography Index of Names and Terms

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This is an ambitious, engaged and erudite incursion into orientalism and related matters. It will add to critical debate in various fields, ranging from historiography to literary criticism. (Dr Tabish Khair, novelist, associate professor, Aarhus University)

"""This is an ambitious, engaged and erudite incursion into orientalism and related matters. It will add to critical debate in various fields, ranging from historiography to literary criticism."" (Dr. Tabish Khair, novelist, associate professor, Aarhus University)"

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Liliana Sikorska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.

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