{"product_id":"avant-garde-orientalism-the-eastern-other-in-twentieth-century-travel-narrative-and-poetry-9783319843834","title":"Avant-Garde Orientalism: The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Lehardy Sweet\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 by assuming an aesthetics of diversity while employing strategies of provocation and reciprocity. As a survey of works on travel (including essays, novels, poems, and plays), the book challenges or modifies many postcolonial assumptions about Western writers on the Orient: from the French Surrealists to the American Beats and even transnational authors of the new millennium. Through a synthesis of avant-garde, postcolonial, and travel literature theories, \u003ci\u003eAvant-garde Orientalism \u003c\/i\u003eworks in the best tradition of comparative literary study to identify and analyze a distinct category of world literature. \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45276988571799,"sku":"9783319843834","price":7345.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783319843834.webp?v=1769287184","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/avant-garde-orientalism-the-eastern-other-in-twentieth-century-travel-narrative-and-poetry-9783319843834","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}