A Mosaic of Misunderstanding: Occident, Orient, and Facets of Mutual Misconstrual

by Julia Szoltysek

Overview

The book investigates relations between the 'East' and 'West' from the Enlightenment until the present times. On the basis of a selection of American, British and Turkish literature, Orientalist painting, and Western opera works, the study proposes an innovative, more nuanced reading of post/colonial phenomena and their socio-cultural implications.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631674734
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	07/25/2016
Series:	Literary and Cultural Theory , #47
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Julia Szołtysek completed her doctoral dissertation at the University of Wrocław, Poland. She currently lectures at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. Her academic interests include literary and artistic representations of the Middle East, travel discourses, racial/ethnic theories, and opera studies.

Table of Contents

Of Mutual Threats - 9/11 Re/considered – Of Orhan Pamuk’s Delightful Obsessions – Of Temptations Lady Mary Discovered, and Shared with Others – Of Promises and New Beginnings – Interview with Erdem Erdoğan – Interview with Elijah Moshinsky