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Author Harrigan, Michael.

Title Veiled encounters : representing the Orient in 17th-century French travel literature / Michael Harrigan.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (299 pages) : illustrations.
Series Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; 321
Faux titre ; no. 321.
Language In English and French.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273)-294) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Capturing cultural encounter -- The literature of encounter -- Threat and the Near East -- The East Indies : le jardin de l'Orient -- Aventures in the Orient -- Conclusion.
Summary Travel narratives were the principal source of knowledge about the lands of the Near East and the Indian Ocean Basin in 17th-century France. Claiming the authority of first-hand observation, they paradoxically rely for their legitimization on the tropes of an established literary tradition. The status of these texts remained ambiguous, not least because of their anecdotal depictions of great riches, brutality or sexual promise. Drawing on the insights of post-colonial scholarship, this study tackles a question given scant attention in previous work and suggests that beyond the hazy representat.
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Subject Travel writing -- France -- History -- 17th century.
French literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism.
Orient -- In literature.
Literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
French literature. (OCoLC)fst00934688
Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
Travel writing. (OCoLC)fst01155681
Asia -- Orient. (OCoLC)fst01243621
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: Harrigan, Michael. Veiled encounters. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2008 9042024763 9789042024762 (OCoLC)262509424
ISBN 9781435695283 (electronic bk.)
1435695283 (electronic bk.)
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