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Imagining the World
Mythical Belief versus Reality in Global Encounters
E-bok, 1994
1260 kr
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This is a study of the manner in which certain mythical notions of the world become accepted as fact. Dathorne shows how particular European concepts such as El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, a race of Amazons, and monster (including cannibal) images were first associated with the Orient. After the …
Imagining the World
Mythical Belief versus Reality in Global Encounters
Inbunden, 1994
1066 kr
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This is a study of the manner in which certain mythical notions of the world become accepted as fact. Dathorne shows how particular European concepts such as El Dorado, the Fountain of Youth, a race of Amazons, and monster (including cannibal) images were first associated with the Orient. After the …
In Europe's Image
The Need for American Multiculturalism
Inbunden, 1994
1066 kr
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Dathorne's approach is basically literary and historical, but he has also developed his argument around politics, popular culture, language, and even landscape architecture. He looks at Europe as a mental construct of philosophies and politics that both the English and European Americans identified …
Asian Voyages
Two Thousand Years of Constructing the Other
Inbunden, 1996
1098 kr
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O. R. Dathorne pursues the phenomenon of contact or encounter particularly as it relates to China and the islands of the Pacific Ocean. He looks at how the Chinese have perceived their Other as heathen and exotic, and how the West has in turn similarly perceived the Chinese. The failure of the West …
Worlds Apart
Race in the Modern Period
Inbunden, 2001
1226 kr
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Long before the physical advent of Blacks in Europe, Professor Dathorne asserts they featured over and over again in literature as marginalized Others, but rarely were real Blacks present. As English developed as a language, race came into the evolution of the signifiers, so that words like …
