Orientalism Versus Occidentalism

Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution

Laetitia Nanquette (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

264 Seiten

2017
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78453-705-0 (ISBN)

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This book highlights the role of cultural representations and perceptions, such as when Iran is represented in the French media as a rogue state obsessed with its nuclear programme, and when France is portrayed in the Iranian media as a decadent and imperialist country. 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. She furthermore analyzes Franco-Iranian relations by exploring the literary traditions of this relationship, the ways in which these have affected individual authors, and how they reflect 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.

Laetitia Nanquette is a Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. In 2011-12, she was a Fulbright Visiting Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard University. She also holds a PhD. in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from SOAS, University of London, for which she received the 2011 Honorable Mention of the Leigh Douglas Memorial Prize from the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.

Introduction
Chapter 1: How can one be Persian? French texts on Iran
Chapter 2: Contesting Iran: Iranian texts written in French
Chapter 3: The Little Satan: Iranian texts on France
Chapter 4: Forever in between: The Persian literature of exile
Chapter 5: Overcoming Othering: French and Persian hybrid texts
Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	11.04.2017
Zusatzinfo	1 integrated bw
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78453-705-5 / 1784537055
ISBN-13	978-1-78453-705-0 / 9781784537050
Zustand	Neuware