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Orientalism Versus Occidentalism Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution

Orientalism Versus Occidentalism Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution

Nanquette, Laetitia

Hardcover

Series: International Library of Cultural Studies, Book 24

Literary CriticismGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1848859783
ISBN13: 9781848859784
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Oct 30 2012
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

At a time when Iran is represented in the French media as a rogue state obsessed with its nuclear programme, and whilst France is portrayed in the Iranian media as a decadent and imperialist country, this book examines the ways in which these representations and stereotypes are shared, nuanced, or overcome beyond the sphere of the fourth estate. Here, Laetitia Nanquette examines the functions, processes and mechanisms of stereotyping and imagining the 'Other' that have pervaded the literary traditions of France and Iran when writing about each other. Orientalism versus Occidentalism explores the extent to which orientalism and occidentalism have each influenced and are in turn perpetuated in the texts of both French and Iranian authors. And conversely, it also looks at the consequences of attempts by authors to distance themselves from these two discourses. After both using and questioning the dichotomy of orientalism and occidentalism, Nanquette details how France and Iran represent each other in the contemporary period through their narrative literature in prose, by listing and classifying all the ways in which they do so.

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