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LITERARY ORIENTALISM POSTCOLONIALISM AND UNIVER...

A number of the greatest classics (both old and modern) of English literature  extending from
Antony and Cleopatra to A Passage to India  contain a sympathetic portrayal of the East  which
connects them to each other in a way that justifies the term «literary orientalism». Literary
Orientalism  Postcolonialism  and Universalism describes this clearly discernable tradition and
examines certain key texts of oriental literature for the strong impact that they have had on
English literature and for the striking manner in which they have been absorbed and
appropriated into British culture. The Arabian Nights stands foremost among these works  which
include the Maqamat  Ibn Tufayl's Hayy Bin Yaqdhan  as well as the oriental sources of courtly
love. Literary Orientalism  Postcolonialism  and Universalism then moves from literary
orientalism to a discussion of postcolonialism and postcolonial discourse. It argues 
principally  that the time has come to go beyond orientalism and postcolonialism to a more
universalist approach. The inadequacies of the term «postcolonial»  in particular  and the
Eurocentric and Westernist perspective it implies  affirm the need for a renewed  modern form
of humanism  a new humanist universalism.

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