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"In recent years, the idea of world literature has become nearly hegemonic in the so-called First World or Global North. It now underlies a range of literary practices including literature festivals, prizes, and competitions, reviewing, editing and publishing, academic research …
"Do women have souls? Christianity has traditionally held the soul to be the seat of reason, intelligence, humanity, immortality, and moral agency. But the Book of Genesis never says that God breathed a soul into Eve. Women's souls thus became significant in Reformation satires …
How is it possible that three playwrights in the early modern Dutch Republic wrote dramas based on contemporary political events in Asia? Reflecting on this remarkable phenomenon, 'Staging Asia' traces the passage of the stories surrounding three political revolutions from seven…
During the decolonization period after World War Second, Edward Said and other scholars identified and fought against Orientalism: the theory and practice of representing the East in Western thought. The aim is to introduce the origins and character of the debate on Orientalism,…
During the decolonization period after World War Second, Edward Said and other scholars identified and fought against Orientalism: the theory and practice of representing the East in Western thought. The aim is to introduce the origins and character of the debate on Orientalism,…
This book is proposed as a contribution to postcolonial critiques of the colonial and postcolonial exotic. It investigates the exotic as a representation of colonial cultural difference in colonial discourse, culture and history, and its oppositional rewritings in postcolonial t…