Modernism's Middle East Journeys to Barbary [Hardcover]

Dealing with the efforts of modernists to effect increasingly fraught identifications with an image of the hard, impersonal 'Arab Other' which they saw in contrast to a decadent Western culture, this book shows how this fantasy became more difficult as its popularity grew but also how it still persists.Introduction: Journeys to Barbary: Modernism's Middle East Modernism and the Sense(s) of an Ending They Came to Baghdad: Woolf and Sackville-West's Levant Charisma at the Box Office; or, Orientalism Strikes Back What Lies Beyond the Sheltering Sky? Bibliography IndexJOANNA GRANT is Assistant Professor of English in the College of Liberal Arts and Education at Tuskegee University, USA. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals.