Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myths of Orient

Name: Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myths of Orient
Brand: Recyclivre
Author: Rana Kabbani
ISBN: 9780863566714

Rana Kabbani

15/05/2008
Saqi Books

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Couverture de Imperial Fictions: Europe's Myths of Orient par Rana Kabbani

Résumé

Rana Kabbani unravels Western fantasies and myths about the East which were woven over the ages. Devised during the Crusades to combat Islam, then confirmed by centuries of Western writers and artists, these myths fostered racial and sexual stereotypes that became vital to imperial designs. In Orientalist travelogues and paintings, the British and the French conceived of an erotic and sinister East, one that they believed to be morally inferior and dangerous, and therefore ripe for colonisation. Such perceptions remain very much apparent today, fuelling the tension between East and West. Imperial Fictions, now a classic, is an erudite analysis of Europe's fabricated Orient, as expressed in its writings and illustrated in its paintings.