French Theatre Orientalism And The Representation Of India 1770 1865

Author : David Hammerbeck
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2022
Category : Art
ISBN : 0367644290

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French Theatre, Orientalism, and the Representation of India, 1770-1865 by David Hammerbeck Pdf

This book examines the French theatricalization of India from 1770 to 1865 and how a range of plays not only represented India to the French viewing public but also staged issues within French culture including colonialism, imperialism, race, gender, and national politics. Through examining these texts and available performance history, and incorporating historical texts and cultural theory, David Hammerback analyses these works to illustrate a complex of cultural representations: some contested Orientalism, some participated in Western colonialist discourses, while some can be placed somewhere between these two markers of ideology in Western culture and the arts. He also assesses the works which participated in shaping the theatrical face of Western hegemony, ones directly participating in Orientalism as delineated by Edward Said and others. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre, French literature, history and cultural studies.

Author : David Hammerbeck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000468748

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French Theatre, Orientalism, and the Representation of India, 1770-1865 by David Hammerbeck Pdf

This book examines the French theatricalization of India from 1770 to 1865 and how a range of plays not only represented India to the French viewing public but also staged issues within French culture including colonialism, imperialism, race, gender, and national politics. Through examining these texts and available performance history, and incorporating historical texts and cultural theory, David Hammerback analyses these works to illustrate a complex of cultural representations: some contested Orientalism, some participated in Western colonialist discourses, while some can be placed somewhere between these two markers of ideology in Western culture and the arts. He also assesses the works which participated in shaping the theatrical face of Western hegemony, ones directly participating in Orientalism as delineated by Edward Said and others. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre, French literature, history and cultural studies.

Author : Enikő Sepsi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000453324

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Poetic Images, Presence, and the Theater of Kenotic Rituals by Enikő Sepsi Pdf

This book explores the interrelation of contemporary French theatre and poetry. Using the pictorial turn in the various branches of art and science, its observable features, and the theoretical framework of the conceptual metaphor, this study seeks to gather together the divergent manners in which French poetry and theatre address this turn. Poetry in space and theatricality of poetry are studied alongside theatre, especially to the performative aspect of the originally theological concept of "kenosis". In doing so the author attempts to make use of the theological concept of kenosis, of central importance in Novarina’s oeuvre, for theatrical and dramatological purposes. Within poetic rituals, kenotic rituals are also examined in the book in a few theatrical practices – János Pilinszky and Robert Wilson, Jerzy Grotowski and Eugenio Barba – facilitating a better understanding of Novarina’s works. Accompanied by new English translations in the appendices, this is the first English language monograph related to the French essayist, dramaturg and director Valère Novarina’s theatre, and will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and literature studies.

Author : Michèle Longino
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521807212

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Orientalism in French Classical Drama by Michèle Longino Pdf

Michèle Longino examines the ways in which Mediterranean exoticism inflects the themes represented in French classical drama. Longino explores plays by Corneille, Molière and Racine; Le Cid, Médée, and Le bourgeois gentilhomme among others. She offers a consideration of the role the staging of the near Orient played in shaping a sense of French colonial identity. Drawing on histories, travel journals, memoirs and correspondence, and bringing together literary and historical concerns, Longino considers these dramatisations in the context of French-Ottoman relations at the time of their production.

Author : Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107110328

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Radical Orientalism by Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud Pdf

This book explores the relationship between ideas of the East and the struggle for democratic rights in the Romantic period.

Author : Mathilde Kang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Oriental literature (French)
ISBN : 9048540275

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The Francophonie and the Orient by Mathilde Kang Pdf

Author : Dean Mahomet
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520918511

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The Travels of Dean Mahomet by Dean Mahomet Pdf

This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India—the first book written in English by an Indian—framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur. Travels presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Connoisseurs of unusual travel narratives, historians of England, Ireland, and British India, as well as literary scholars of autobiography and colonial discourse will find much in this book. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.

Author : Indira Ghose
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040378559

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Women Travellers in Colonial India by Indira Ghose Pdf

Drawing on long-neglected travel writings by British women in India, this study looks at different aspects that women focus on as opposed to men, particularly in their encounters with Indian women in the zenana. Located at the cross-roads of feminist theory and colonial discourse theory, the book examines the power relations inscribed into the traveller's gaze.

Author : Timothy Mitchell
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520911666

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Colonising Egypt by Timothy Mitchell Pdf

Extending deconstructive theory to historical and political analysis, Timothy Mitchell examines the peculiarity of Western conceptions of order and truth through a re-reading of Europe's colonial encounter with nineteenth-century Egypt.

Author : Jonathan Israel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 883 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400849994

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Revolutionary Ideas by Jonathan Israel Pdf

How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French Revolution Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers—that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have argued that the Revolution was brought about by social forces, politics, economics, or culture—almost anything but abstract notions like liberty or equality. In Revolutionary Ideas, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment restores the Revolution’s intellectual history to its rightful central role. Drawing widely on primary sources, Jonathan Israel shows how the Revolution was set in motion by radical eighteenth-century doctrines, how these ideas divided revolutionary leaders into vehemently opposed ideological blocs, and how these clashes drove the turning points of the Revolution. In this compelling account, the French Revolution stands once again as a culmination of the emancipatory and democratic ideals of the Enlightenment. That it ended in the Terror represented a betrayal of those ideas—not their fulfillment.

Author : Georgina Born,David Hesmondhalgh
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520220838

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Western Music and Its Others by Georgina Born,David Hesmondhalgh Pdf

"[Western Music and Its Others] will be taken as an important book signalling a new turn within the field. It takes the best features of traditional, rigorous scholarship and brings these to bear upon contemporary, more speculative questions. The level of theoretical sophistication is high. The studies within it are polemical and timely and of lasting scholarly value."--Will Straw, co-editor of Theory Rules: Art as Theory/ Theory and Art "The great value of this collection lies in the wealth of questions that it raises--questions that together crystallize the recent concerns of musicology with force and clarity. But it also lies in the authors' resistance to the easy 'postmodernist' answers that threaten to turn new musicology prematurely grey. The editors' comprehensive, intellectually adventurous introduction exemplifies the sort of eager yet properly skeptical receptivity to scholarly innovation that fosters lasting disciplinary reform. It alone is worth the price of the book." --Richard Taruskin, author of Stravinsky and the Russian Traditions: A Biography of the Works Through " Mavra" "When cultural-studies methods first appeared in musicology 15 years ago, they triggered a storm of polemics that sometimes overshadowed the important issues being raised. As the canon wars recede, however, scholars are finding it possible to focus on the concerns that led them to cultural criticism in the first place: the study of music and its political meanings. Western Music and Its Others brings together leading musicologists, ethnomusicologists, and specialists in film and popular music to explore the ways European and North American musicians have drawn on or identified themselves in tension with the musical practices of Others. In a series of essays ranging from examination of the Orientalist tropes of early 20th-century Modernists to the tangled claims for ownership in today's World Music, the authors in this collection greatly advance both our knowledge of specific case studies and our intellectual awareness of the complexity and urgency of these problems. A timely intervention that should help push music studies to the next level." --Susan McClary, author of Conventional Wisdom: The Content of Musical Form (2000) "This collection provides a sophisticated model for using theory to interrogate music and music to interrogate theory. The essays both take up and challenge the dominance of notions of representation in cultural theory as they explore the relevance of the concepts of hybridity and otherness for contemporary art music. Sophisticated theory, erudite scholarship and a very real appreciation for the specificities of music make this a powerful and important addition to our understanding of both culture and music." --Lawrence Grossberg, author of Dancing in Spite of Myself

Author : Srinivas Aravamudan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226024486

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Enlightenment Orientalism by Srinivas Aravamudan Pdf

Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction Enlightenment Orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of Oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the rise of the novel. More than mere exoticism, Oriental tales fascinated ordinary readers as well as intellectuals, taking the fancy of philosophers such as Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Diderot in France, and writers such as Defoe, Swift, and Goldsmith in Britain. Aravamudan shows that Enlightenment Orientalism was a significant movement that criticized irrational European practices even while sympathetically bridging differences among civilizations. A sophisticated reinterpretation of the history of the novel, Enlightenment Orientalism is sure to be welcomed as a landmark work in eighteenth-century studies.

Author : Margaret A. Majumdar
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1845452526

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Postcoloniality by Margaret A. Majumdar Pdf

Postcolonial theory is one of the key issues of scholarly debates worldwide; debates, so the author argues, which are rather sterile and characterized by a repetitive reworking of old hackneyed issues, focussing on cultural questions of language and identity in particular. She explores the divergent responses to the debates on globalization.

Author : Carol A. Breckenridge,Peter van der Veer
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0812214366

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Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament by Carol A. Breckenridge,Peter van der Veer Pdf

This book explores the ways in which colonial administrators constructed knowledge about the society and culture of India and the processes through which that knowledge has shaped past and present Indian reality.

Author : Tony Bennett,Lawrence Grossberg,Meaghan Morris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118725412

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New Keywords by Tony Bennett,Lawrence Grossberg,Meaghan Morris Pdf

Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams’ Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere. Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists Showcases 142 signed entries – from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, the virtual, and the West – that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society Builds on and updates Raymond Williams’s classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing The book is supported by a website: www.blackwellpublishing.com/newkeywords.