David Lehardy Sweet: 1 book

Book cover of Avant-garde Orientalism

Avant-garde Orientalism

The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry

by David LeHardy Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017

This study explores the work of Western avant-garde writers who traveled to and wrote about Asia and North Africa. Though exoticist in outlook, many of these writers were also anti-colonialist and thus avoided some of the pitfalls of academic orientalism by assuming an aesthetics of diversity while...
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