Go East, Young Man Imagining the American West as the Orient【電子書籍】[ Richard Francaviglia ]

＜p＞Transference of orientalist images and identities to the American landscape and its inhabitants, especially in the Westーin other words, portrayal of the West as the “Orient”ーhas been a common aspect of American cultural history. Place names, such as the Jordan River or Pyramid Lake, offer notable examples, but the imagery and its varied meanings are more widespread and significant. Understanding that range and significance, especially to the western part of the continent, means coming to terms with the complicated, nuanced ideas of the Orient and of the North American continent that European Americans brought to the West. Such complexity is what historical geographer Richard Francaviglia unravels in this book.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Since the publication of Edward Said’s book, ＜em＞Orientalism,＜/em＞ the term has come to signify something one-dimensionally negative. In essence, the orientalist vision was an ethnocentric characterization of the peoples of Asia (and Africa and the “Near East”) as exoti．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る