Warrior Gentlemen "Gurkhas" in the Western Imagination |
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Author:
| Caplan, Lionel |
ISBN: | 978-1-57181-852-2 |
Publication Date: | Feb 1995 |
Publisher: | Berghahn Books, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $135.00 |
Book Description:
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Of late, there has been a growing interest in how non-Western peoples have been and continue to be depicted in the literatures of the West. In anthropology, attention has focused on the range of literary devices employed in ethnographic texts to distance and exoticize the subjects of discourse, and ultimately contribute to their subordination. ......
Of late, there has been a growing interest in how non-Western peoples have been and continue to be depicted in the literatures of the West. In anthropology, attention has focused on the range of literary devices employed in ethnographic texts to distance and exoticize the subjects of discourse, and ultimately contribute to their subordination. ......