Orientalism and Reverse Orientalism in Literature and Film

Acknowledging the significance of Edward Said's Orientalism for contemporary discourse, the contributors to this volume deconstruct, rearrange and challenge elements of his thesis, looking at the new conditions and opportunities offered by globalization.

Autorentext

Sharmani Patricia Gabriel is Professor of English at Universiti Malaya, Malaysia.

Bernard Wilson teaches at Gakushuin University, Tsuda University, and the University of the Sacred Heart, Japan.

Klappentext

Acknowledging the significance of Edward Said's Orientalism for contemporary discourse, the contributors to this volume deconstruct, rearrange and challenge elements of his thesis, looking at the new conditions and opportunities offered by globalization.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Resisting Orientalism; Part I: (Neo)Imperial Desire and Re(pro)ductive Stereotypes; *2. Masquerade, Mise-en-Scène and Female Harem Desire in Abdul the Damned (1935); 3. Zen and the Art of Cultural Cliché: Three Cinematic Pilgrimages to Japan in the New Millennium; 4. "Putting it My Way, but Nicely": Neocolonialism in Feminist Clothing in Andy Tennant's Anna and the King (1999) and Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I* (1956); Part II: East-West Travel and Cultural Translation; **5. Steinbeck's East of Eden: Progenitor of Chinese American Intertextual and Intercultural Encounters; 6. "The Impossibility of Knowing": Exoticism and East-West Intersections in the Travel Writings of Victor Segalen; 7. A Passage to the West: Globalization and the Refugee Crisis in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West; 8. "Make the Best of Both Worlds": Utopianism in Aldous Huxley's Island and D. T. Suzuki's Social Thought; 9. Remote Translators: Translational Life Narrative in Edward Seidensticker and Donald Richie; Part III: Re-Orienting National History and Glocalizing Contexts; 10. Rethinking Rural China: Zhang Yimou's Red Sorghum and the Roots-Searching Movement in a Post-Cultural Revolution Context; 11. China's Orient in Fan de Siècle Culture; 12. Reorienting Sinophone America through "Sinophone Orientalism"; 13. Between Script and Genre: A Space Where East Meets West; Index