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Warrior Gentlemen: Gurkhas in the Western Imagination
by Lionel Caplan (Author),
Berghahn Books (Publisher)
Product Specifications
Book Description
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. This study eschews the tendency to regard
virtually all depictions of non-Western "others" as amenable to the same kinds
of "orientalist" analysis, and argues that the portrayals found in such writings
must be examined in their particular historical and political settings. These
themes are explored by analyzing the voluminous literature by military authors
who
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9781571818522
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Berghahn Books
Publishing Date 1995-02-01
Total Pages 192