Cornell University Press Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms

Review A lucid and important feminist contribution to the study of orientalism. Lowe's study is particularly valuable on the issues of gender and sexuality.-- "Times Higher Education Supplement"Lowe offers a helpful analysis of the ways in which West European texts represent the subordinate Other, those non-European societies and cultures defeated by European empire and figured in a vocabulary of gender and race.-- "Choice" Product Description Examining and historicizing the concept of "otherness" in both literature and criticism, Lisa Lowe explores representations of non-European cultures in British and French writings from the eighteenth through the twentieth century. Lowe traces the intersections of culture, class, and sexuality in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters and Montesquieu's Lettres persanes and discusses tropes of orientalism, racialism, and romanticism in Flaubert. About the Author Lisa Lowe is Distinguished Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University. She is the author of The Intimacies of Four Continents and Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics and coauthor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital.