Original research article
Humanities Review

In Search for the Exotic: Colin Thubron and William Dalrymple’s Journeys to the Eastern Fount of Christianity

2015, 59, No. 2

Monika Kowalczyk-Piaseczna

University of Silesia (Katowice, Polska)

Publication date

30.09.2015

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Humanities

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archeology, literary studies, culture and religion studies, arts studies, history, philosophy, linguistics

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English

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Abstract

Odwołując się do Saidowskiego rozumienia praktyk orientalizacyjnych jako realizacji potrzeb kolonizacji Wschodu, niniejszy artykuł ma za zadanie zaprezentować obecność owych praktyk w postkolonialnej literaturze podróżniczej. Analiza dwóch tekstów autorstwa brytyjskich podróżników opisujących swoją podróż w rejony Bliskiego Wschodu: Williama Dalrymple’a From the Holy Mountain i Colina Thubrona Mirror to Damascus, ma za zadanie przedstawić sposób, w jaki przekonanie o egzotyce wchodnich obszarów, głęboko zakorzenione w kulturze europejskiej, prowokuje rozczarowania eurocentrycznym sposobem klasyfikacji tego obszaru oraz potrzebę poszerzenia znaczenia egzotyki o element europejskiej tożsamości.

Keywords:

colonialism,Exoticism,Orientalism,travel literature,post-colonial theory,Christianity

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