L’orientalisme des marges: Eclairages à partir de l’Inde et de la Russie, Lausanne: Etudes de lettres, 2014, Oct 10, 2014
Through a number of cases forgotten from postcolonial critique, this book explores the notion o... more Through a number of cases forgotten from postcolonial critique, this book explores the notion of “margins”, geographical as well as epistemological, in the context of Saïd’s orientalism. Bringing together the Anglo-Indian case, often considered as a classical form of orientalism, and the Russo-Soviet case, both object of Western orientalism and itself a producer of orientalist discourses, the study invites to shift the perspective from the imperial Franco-British spaces towards less traditional comparisons. Going beyond a binary model opposing “colonizers” to “colonized”, the approach analyzes the mechanisms of knowledge production (arts, languages, literatures, religions etc.) and their transfers in colonial settings, as well as local appropriations and (re)inventions of hybrid traditions. Crossing perspectives in such a way helps to analyze the ambiguity of situations that unfolded during and after periods of imperial domination in the triangle of India, Russia and Europe.
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