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Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient - Other Encounters (Hardcover)
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Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Readings of the Medieval Orient - Other Encounters (Hardcover)
Series: Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
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Travel narratives and historical works shaped the perception of
Muslims and the East in the Victorian and post-Victorian periods.
Analyzing the discourses on Muslims which originated in the
European Middle Ages, the first part of the book discusses the
troubled legacy of the encounters between the East and the West and
locates the nineteenth-century texts concerning the Saracens and
their lands in the liminal space between history and fiction.
Drawing on the nineteenth-century models, the second part of the
book looks at fictional and non-fictional works of the late
twentieth and early twenty-first century which re-established the
"Oriental obsession," stimulating dread and resentment, and even
more strongly setting the Civilized West against the Barbaric East.
Here medieval metaphorical enemies of Mankind - the World, the
Flesh and the Devil - reappear in different contexts: the world of
immigration, of white women desiring Muslim men, and the
present-day "freedom fighters."
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