The Geography of Self-Representation: Orientalism in Ernest Hemingway’S the Sun also Rises
This paper will deal with the problematics of cultural self-representation in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. I shall approach this theme by applying concepts from Edward Said’s Orientalism and Jean Baudrillard’s America to Hemingway’s novel and discussing the limitations of such theories whi...
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| description | This paper will deal with the problematics of cultural self-representation in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. I shall approach this theme by applying concepts from Edward Said’s Orientalism and Jean Baudrillard’s America to Hemingway’s novel and discussing the limitations of such theories which - it will be argued - oversimplify the issue by reducing it to an opposition between ‘Self’ and ‘Otherness’. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-404a497685ab4b44986cd34148b021632022-12-22T01:55:16ZengSciendoRomanian Journal of English Studies1584-37342286-04282014-03-01111657010.2478/rjes-2014-0008rjes-2014-0008The Geography of Self-Representation: Orientalism in Ernest Hemingway’S the Sun also RisesBorcău Mădălina0University of BucharestThis paper will deal with the problematics of cultural self-representation in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. I shall approach this theme by applying concepts from Edward Said’s Orientalism and Jean Baudrillard’s America to Hemingway’s novel and discussing the limitations of such theories which - it will be argued - oversimplify the issue by reducing it to an opposition between ‘Self’ and ‘Otherness’.https://doi.org/10.2478/rjes-2014-0008americacultural representationhemingwayothernessorientalism |
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| title | The Geography of Self-Representation: Orientalism in Ernest Hemingway’S the Sun also Rises |
| title_full | The Geography of Self-Representation: Orientalism in Ernest Hemingway’S the Sun also Rises |
| title_fullStr | The Geography of Self-Representation: Orientalism in Ernest Hemingway’S the Sun also Rises |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Geography of Self-Representation: Orientalism in Ernest Hemingway’S the Sun also Rises |
| title_short | The Geography of Self-Representation: Orientalism in Ernest Hemingway’S the Sun also Rises |
| title_sort | geography of self representation orientalism in ernest hemingway s the sun also rises |
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