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The Exotic

A Decadent Quest

By: Dorothy Matilda Figueira

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The Exotic

A Decadent Quest

By: Dorothy Matilda Figueira

Figueira (comparative literature, U. of Illinois) identifies how the Gadamerian concept of prejudice in the form of specific exotic clichTs elucidates the dynamics of exoticism, while tracing Sanskrit studies in the West, focusing on 19th-century German, French, and English scholarship and also touching on 20th-century associations between Indo-Ger

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0791416291

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Translating the Orient

The Reception of Śākuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe

By: Dorothy Matilda Figueira

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The Reception of Śākuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe

By: Dorothy Matilda Figueira

An examination of how Europeans projected their own cultural needs upon India, this study reveals the forces that caused an important Sanskrit text to be distorted in translation, criticism, and adaptation, and isolates the linguistic errors and cultural distortions that can be grouped into trends and patterns. The influences of German and French romanticism receive considerable attention. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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0791403270

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The Exotic

A Decadent Quest

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Aryans, Jews, Brahmins

Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity

By: Dorothy M. Figueira

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Aryans, Jews, Brahmins

Theorizing Authority through Myths of Identity

By: Dorothy M. Figueira

In Aryans, Jews, Brahmins, Dorothy M. Figueira provides a fascinating account of the construction of the Aryan myth and its uses in both India and Europe from the Enlightenment to the twentieth century. The myth concerns a race that inhabits a utopian past and gives rise first to Brahmin Indian culture and then to European culture. In India, notions of the Aryan were used to develop a national identity under colonialism, one that allowed Indian elites to identify with their British rulers. It also allowed non-elites to set up a counter identity critical of their position in the caste system. In Europe, the Aryan myth provided certain thinkers with an origin story that could compete with the Biblical one and could be used to diminish the importance of the West's Jewish heritage. European racial hygienists made much of the myth of a pure Aryan race, and the Nazis later looked at India as a cautionary tale of what could happen if a nation did not remain "pure." As Figueira demonstrates, the history of the Aryan myth is also a history of reading, interpretation, and imaginative construction. Initially, the ideology of the Aryan was imposed upon absent or false texts. Over time, it involved strategies of constructing, evoking, or distorting the canon. Each construction of racial identity was concerned with key issues of reading: canonicity, textual accessibility, interpretive strategies of reading, and ideal readers. The book's cross-cultural investigation demonstrates how identities can be and are created from texts and illuminates an engrossing, often disturbing history that arose from these creations.

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0791487830

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Otherwise Occupied

Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory

By: Dorothy Matilda Figueira

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Pedagogies of Alterity and the Brahminization of Theory

By: Dorothy Matilda Figueira

Tracing the historical development of recent identity-based trends in literary theory to their roots in structuralism, Dorothy M. Figueira questions the extent to which theories and pedagogies of alterity have actually enabled us to engage the Other. She tracks academic attempts to deal with alterity from their inception in critical thought in the 1960s to the present. Focusing on multiculturalism and postcolonialism as professional and institutional practices, Figueira examines how such theories and pedagogies informed the academic and public discourse regarding September 11. She also investigates the theories and pedagogies of alterity as crucial elements in the bureaucratization of diversity within academe and discusses their impact on affirmative action.

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1435695445

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Translating the Orient

The Reception of Śākuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe

By: Dorothy Matilda Figueira

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The Exotic

The Exotic

Translating the Orient

Translating the Orient

The Exotic

The Exotic

Aryans, Jews, Brahmins

Aryans, Jews, Brahmins

Otherwise Occupied

Otherwise Occupied

Translating the Orient

Translating the Orient

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