MiataDrivers - Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, and the Fin de Siecle
Chris Bongie
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Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, Chris Bongie epub Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, Chris Bongie pdf download Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, Chris Bongie pdf file Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, Chris Bongie audiobook Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, Chris Bongie book review Exotic Memories: Literature, Colonialism, Chris Bongie summary | #4706349 in Books | Stanford University Press | 1991-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .64 x6.18 x9.06l, | File type: PDF | 262 pages | ||5 of 12 people found the following review helpful.| Exotic Memories: Flop|By A Customer|Indeed, I have exotic memories of a time before I was ever exposed to such a dull text. This work exhudes everything that is wrong with academic writing; it is pretentious, dull, long-winded and narrow. Ultimately, Bongie makes a seemingly abstruse argument--in shockingly baroque, inflated prose--that merely tells us what we already know||'A challenging study that will be welcomed by scholars in the fields of French, English, Italian, and comparative literature, as well as by historians of anthropology and colonialism. This is a book whose time is exactly right: a fin-de-si?cle meditation on th
This book focuses on the literature of exoticism at the turn of the last century and how it foreshadows our own fin de siecle. Earlier writers of exoticism had turned away from the West and its modernity, rejecting the social changes caused by industrialization and displacing onto 'savage' or 'primitive' cultures their aspirations for political freedom. By the turn of the century, however, European nations had reduced vast areas of the globe to colonial status: this glob...
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