Dealing with the efforts of modernists to effect increasingly fraught identifications with an image of the hard, impersonal 'Arab Other' which they saw in contrast to a decadent Western culture, this book shows how this fantasy became more difficult as its popularity grew but also how it still persists. ÍNDICE: Introduction: Journeys to Barbary: Modernism's Middle East - Modernism and the Sense(s) of an Ending - They Came to Baghdad: Woolf and Sackville-West's Levant - Charisma at the Box Office; or, Orientalism Strikes Back - What Lies Beyond the Sheltering Sky? - Bibliography - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-20953-4
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 31/10/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés