{"product_id":"avant-garde-orientalism-9783319503738","title":"Avant-garde Orientalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis study explores the work of Western avant-garde writers who traveled to and wrote about Asia and North Africa. Though exoticist in outlook, many of these writers were also anti-colonialist and thus avoided some of the pitfalls of academic orientalism by assuming an aesthetics of diversity while employing strategies of provocation and reciprocity. As a survey of works on travel (including essays, novels, poems, and plays), the book challenges or modifies many postcolonial assumptions about Western writers on the Orient: from the French Surrealists to the American Beats and even transnational authors of the new millennium. Through a synthesis of avant-garde, postcolonial, and travel literature theories, Avant-garde Orientalism works in the best tradition of comparative literary study to identify and analyze a distinct category of world literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52935034437911,"sku":null,"price":12080.49,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9783319503738.jpg?v=1781616074","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/products\/avant-garde-orientalism-9783319503738","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}