Borges's search, or the bibliophilic Orient -- 'Without stopping' : the Orient as liminal space in Paul Bowles -- The living labyrinth : Hong Kong and David T.K. Wong's Hong Kong stories -- Where is place? : local and identity in Kazua Ishiguro's When we were orphans and Ricardo Piglia's La ciudad ausente -- At the end of east/west : myth in Salman Rushdie's The moor's last sigh -- Identity and citizenship in a world of shame
Translating Orients
Between Ideology and Utopia
Published:
2014
Publisher:
University of Toronto Press, Toronto
Weiss examines texts that reference Asian, North African, or Middle Eastern societies and their imaginaries, and, equally important, engage questions of individual and communal identity that issue from transformative encounters
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Weiss examines texts that reference Asian, North African, or Middle Eastern societies and their imaginaries, and, equally important, engage questions of individual and communal identity that issue from transformative encounters
