Interrogating Orientalism: Contextual Approaches and Pedagogical Practices

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Diane Long Hoeveler, Jeffrey Cass
Ohio State University Press, 2006 - 277 pages
Introduction : mapping orientalism : representations and pedagogies / Diane Long Hoeveler and Jeffrey Cass -- Interrogating orientalism : theories and practices / Jeffrey Cass -- The female captivity narrative : blood, water, and orientalism / Diane Long Hoeveler -- "Better than the reality" : the Egyptian market in nineteenth-century travel writing / Emily A. Haddad -- Colonial counterflow : from orientalism to Buddhism / Mark Lussier -- Homoerotics and orientalism in William Beckford's Vathek: liberalism and the problem of pederasty / Jeffrey Cass -- Orientalism in Disraeli's Alroy / Sheila A. Spector -- Teaching the quintessential Turkish tale : Montagu's Turkish embassy letters / Jeanne Dubino -- Representing India in drawing-room and classroom : or, Miss Owenson and "those gay gentlemen, Brahma, Vishnu, and Co." / Michael J. Franklin -- "Unlettered tartars" and "torpid barbarians" : teaching the figure of the Turk in Shelley and De Quincey / Filiz Turhan -- "Boundless thoughts and free souls" : teaching Byron's Sardanapalus, Lara, and The corsair / G. Todd Davis -- Byron's The giaour : teaching orientalism in the wake of September 11 / Alan Richardson -- Teaching nineteenth-century orientalist entertainments / Edward Ziter

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Contents

Teaching Byrons Sardanapalus
10
Theories and Practices
25
Blood Water and Orientalism
46
The Egyptian Market in NineteenthCentury British
72
From Orientalism to Buddhism
90
Liberalism
107
Orientalism in Disraelis Alroy
121
Montagus Turkish Embassy Letters
139
Representing India in DrawingRoom and Classroom or Miss Owenson
159
Teaching the Figure of
182
Teaching Orientalism in the Wake of September 11
213
Teaching nineteenthCentury Orientalist Entertainments
224
Works Cited
245
notes on Contributors
265
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