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Orientalism Versus Occidentalism - Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution (Hardcover)
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Orientalism Versus Occidentalism - Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution (Hardcover)
Series: International Library of Cultural Studies
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At a time when Iran is represented in the French media as a rogue
state obsessed with its nuclear programme, and whilst France is
portrayed in the Iranian media as a decadent and imperialist
country, this book examines the ways in which these representations
and stereotypes are shared, nuanced, or overcome beyond the sphere
of the fourth estate. Here, Laetitia Nanquette examines the
functions, processes and mechanisms of stereotyping and imagining
the 'Other' that have pervaded the literary traditions of France
and Iran when writing about each other. Orientalism versus
Occidentalism explores the extent to which orientalism and
occidentalism have each influenced and are in turn perpetuated in
the texts of both French and Iranian authors. And conversely, it
also looks at the consequences of attempts by authors to distance
themselves from these two discourses. After both using and
questioning the dichotomy of orientalism and occidentalism,
Nanquette details how France and Iran represent each other in the
contemporary period through their narrative literature in prose, by
listing and classifying all the ways in which they do so. She
examines the image of the Other in the works of writers such as
Goli Taraqi, Bernard Ollivier and Marjane Satrapi. In order to
explore this, Nanquette draws upon a broad range of literary genres
such as the historical novel, travel writing and autobiography.
This exploration of the literary traditions of the relationship
between France and Iran is used to shed light on the cultural
history of Franco-Iranian relations and on contemporary
socio-political realities. With themes that feed into popular
debates about the nature of orientalism and occidentalism, and how
the two interact, this book will be vital for researchers of Middle
Eastern literature and its relationship with writings from the
West, as well as those working on the cultures of the Middle East.
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