"Introduction What is the relationship between Orientalism and literature and how does it aid us in our reading? Orientalism: Critical Concepts sets out to interrogate a key critical concept in literary studies, and has the aim of reviewing the evolution of the concept as it has…
Study on the 19th century English poetry written by Indians in Bengal and its social, historical, and political aspects.
"From jewellery to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditions - especially those of the East - are being commodified as never before. Imitated and rebranded as 'New Age' or 'spiritual', they are marketed to secular Westerners as an answer to suffering in the mo…
"From jewellery to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditions -- especially those of the East -- are being commodified as never before. Imitated and rebranded as 'New Age' or 'spiritual, ' they are marketed to secular Westerners as an answer to suffering in the…
A Taste for China' offers an account of how literature of the long eighteenth century generated a model of English selfhood dependent on figures of China. It shows how various genres of writing in this period call upon 'things Chinese' to define the tasteful English subject of m…
The Dravidian language family is marked historically by a protracted struggle between Tamil and its aggressively assertive supremacy, and the consequent peripheralizing of other majoritarian languages of the region. This book looks at the development of Telugu - with its unique …
Introduction: Manilaism as an Orientalism -- Chapter 1. 'A seething cauldron of evil': hispanophobia, Third World blues and Manila-as-hell -- Chapter 2. 'Known to all students of history': adventure, imperial mythology and orientalist rhetoric in manilaism of the US conquest of …
"The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial hegemony, amongst other …
"The city of Manila is uniquely significant to Philippine, Southeast Asian and world history. It played a key role in the rise of Western colonial mercantilism in Asia, the extinction of the Spanish Empire and the ascendancy of the USA to global imperial hegemony, amongst other …
Scope and content: "When Henry Luce announced in 1941 that we were living in the 'American century, ' he believed that the international popularity of American culture made the world favorable to U.S. interests. Now, in the digital twenty-first century, the American century has …
"In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a pioneering community of Christian scholars laid the groundwork for the modern Western understanding of Islamic civilization. These men produced the first accurate translation of the Qur’an into a European language, mapped the branc…
