"Examining William Blake's poetry in relation to the mythographic tradition of the eighteenth century and emphasizing the British discovery of Hindu literature, David Weir argues that Blake's mythic system springs from the same rich historical context that produced the Oriental …
Contributors offer an exciting new landscape in which to situate research on cultures and societies of the non-European world, with a road-map that leads us beyond the restrictive dichotomy of Occident/Orient.
Psychoanalytic film study that explores the way East Asia is a key enigmatic signifier for the West.
In an exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, King traces a long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood…