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portada Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East
Type
Physical Book
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Language
English
Pages
282
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.6 x 15.4 x 2.2 cm
Weight
0.52 kg.
ISBN13
9781684484676
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Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East

Yin Yuan (Author) · Bucknell University Press · Hardcover

Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East - Yuan, Yin

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Synopsis "Alimentary Orientalism: Britain's Literary Imagination and the Edible East"

What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period's literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and genres, this book considers how, why, and whither writers used scenes of eating, drinking, and smoking to diagnose and interrogate their own solipsistic constructions of the Orient. As national and cultural boundaries became increasingly porous, such self-reflexive inquiries into the nature and role of otherness provided an unexpected avenue for British imperial subjectivity to emerge and coalesce.

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