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Tag Archives: Orientalism
Martin Anderson on Skylight Press
“…It was a raw grey Parisian winter day. I was walking through the boulevards that a few years earlier had echoed to the sounds of students marching. In a small flat off the Rue Mouffetard I was introduced to a … Continue reading →
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Tagged Borges, British Literature, British poetry, China, English literature, English poetry, Essex, Far East, Graham Greene, Hong Kong, Interlocutors of Paradise, London, Martin Anderson, meta narratives, Nathaniel Tarn, Orientalism, poems, poetry, Post Colonialism, Post-Co, Prose poetry, Shearsman Books, The Philippines, travel
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Stoning the Devil by Garry Craig Powell
When Edward Said penned Orientalism in 1978 he professed that Western attitudes towards the Middle East were built on a “constellation of false assumptions” – highlighting the “subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture.” What has … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anita Diamant, Arab culture, Arab History, British fiction, British Literature, British Novel, Cultural Studies, eight months on ghazzah street, fiction, Garry Craig Powell, Hilary Mantel, Islam, Lawrence Durrell, Literary novel, Louise Erdrich, middle-east, Naomi Shihab Nye, novel, novel in stories, Orientalism, Persian Gulf, Post Colonialism, Religion, Short Stories, Stoning the Devil, travel, United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirites
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