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    Oriental Prospects Aooroanl Literature and the Lure of the East Pret g C.C. Barfoot and Theo D'baen Amsterdam - Adanta, GA. ISBN 9042005823 (bound) (Cover dsgn: Hendrik van Dei © Bains Rodi BY. ‘Ataterdam Alan, GA 1998 ‘Printed in The Netherlands CONTENTS ‘Musraions Preeory Noe Inodueion: Oren Prospects 1 Ton Hoenslaae The Eleabehans ond the Tur at Constantinople 2 Garland Cannon ‘Sr Wilt fons ana Literary Orel 23 EL Habib Bena Sephisi Willan Beckford Symbolic Appropsation ofthe Oveual Concert 4.6 Barfoot English Romane Poets andthe “Fre-loating Oren” 5 Paul Pelckmans Waler Seoa's Olen The Talisman 6 Gerard Teemorhsizen In Search of the Noble Savage: Travers’ Accounts in Old Indes Government Journals (1816-1830) 7 Robert Dace he "Heathen Chine” ad the "Ylow Pet” Peaudo-Chinterie in Popular Fiction 8 lop Leerssen Ish Sie and Oristalism: Ireland and the Orient 9 Michael React Recent wl a o m 1 161 15 PEELE: ue SESVOALE IRISII STUDIES AND ORIENTALISM: IRELAND AND THE ORIENT. JOEP LEERSSEN The humour of he stuaion eked the rsh and the rset in Sal tis scarcely ncesay, nthe preset content, to dwell on he portance ‘of Sas Orenatiom. Excpe, potays, ht my pape of linking Sis took tothe aust westerly county of Europe mh Sod in need Of some planation. ‘Grewal is ot ony bout the Orient is, more gees, about the hegemony of representation, bot the role of discourse and ultra Imagery inte formulation and perpetation of power relationships, The ‘book's impertnce ies, then, as A nits modes operand 38 eta topic. Whea i appeared in I9TH eft In America was very mich der he intuoce of De Man anc the Yale school ad opera, ‘exta hemeticim was the ode fhe day ~ almost ikea New Cees! esti turned inset, Tn that climate, Orietaom, with is debs to Foucault rather than Derrida offered a way out of he Yale "priaon howe of language" While Said could effortesly Keep pace. with the latest cea! saphisicaton, his sole textual eatings yt Kept thee subjctmater firmly within ts proper historical nd ideologial context. Tat then, wat Ortematim’s ore general contin 10 leary stds. is rmehodology. And that methodology stn be aplid, ot eal in Said's chosen case of Europe vs. "the ORC", bun al ests where snialy| hegemonic relationship obuins ‘Sal surprise, then, that Ih cies have eagerty followed Sid's lueand applied ti caseof Oriente othe elatonsiptetmee Irland 4nd England, Tela, feral, cold be ead to have sod to England in 1 quascolonial relationship, ano have undergone the sume procese of 1 Raa Hig, Hn vad WS, epi ob, 1987, 297. 1 Joep Leeson ‘esemonsic representation In English discourse a8 “ih Orient. Sid's book was to some extent te cally! in shor) devclomeat had ‘area rh stiis around 1970 (especially aang historian prope), tat ha begun ace English attest lsland in erm of colo ‘expansion Sine 1975, Irish Lierary Astor, andthe Noto of ‘eorevematins, has come oe wowed incising inte perce ‘appli by Suid. W.J. McCormack esined the name “Cellcom to name {i oseieal analogue o Oriewalism, 2 highly noel bask tke Weg tel by David Caire and Shacn Richards i sffsed wit Sai’ ingucnce, even though te authors cme from the Balsh radon ‘of Maraism gone postmodern; 4 no ls Infacol Bock. ke toot loys Natanalsm and Minor Lieratre, feom the, New Harel sxoroach whose rise his ben pal tiggeed by Sas Hook, haat Simiar “vein offered an. Zdeologeritt of Ilana alia egemony; and within Ireland, lesing cites lke Seams Deas at Desan Kierd have taken to Sid's model wi go Heslan, to put ippandy, hasbeen co-opt into the Tid Word ‘That phrase from the! recent fim The Comments is wellAnows ‘esha ar he Bick ofthe wold, Dubliners oe the Black of iene, ant Nomis are the Blacks of Dublin, Not at hese sparely see Aeprecating words are spoken wih evident pre and station) fi alps one to claim 2 “rata sense of ehyhm",Ieand is pleased la be Bat of the Tied World. Nor is bat x dsorton of Sas wn siows, te ‘be himself as published (na pamphlet published by leans pression: store pltical hinctank, the “Feld Day Company", an nero of Yeats a 2 pot of rational liberation, comparable Ww Wine ee colonial poets sich as LS. Sengho, Pablo Nerata or Raed 2. DB. Quen The Enh dhe ih, Me: NY, 166; Nice Som “Te lg of Eg Colao! From cen wAnese igs meten art 355 reo Earp gts iy i lan, he dite ldo, 680130, eds KR, Re a Leo 9% Ireland an the Orient 163 ‘Tagore* I shall ern 0 Saige views on Yeats by and by. Fit, however, afew more general rena. ‘A Siid-npired. way of ooking at fa matiére @Mande tas been Suit and infoenal. Paterns of cllore and. ate have, boca

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