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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Seigel, Jerrold E. (1936-....)
Titre(s) : Between cultures [Texte imprimé] : Europe and its others in five exemplary lives / Jerrold Seigel
Publication : Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, cop. 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (275 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Intellectual history of the modern age
Lien à la collection : Intellectual history of the modern age
Comprend : Introduction ; Masquerade, engagement, and skepticism : Richard Burton ; Commitment
and loss : T.E. Lawrence ; The Islamic Catholicism of Louis Massignon ; Independence
and ambivalence : Chinua Achebe and two African contemporaries ; Reflection, mystery,
and violence : Orhan Pamuk ; Conclusion: Distance and belonging.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Richard Burton. T. E. Lawrence. Louis Massignon. Chinua Achebe. Orhan Pamuk. The remarkable
quintet whose stories make up Jerrold Seigel's Between Cultures are all people who,
without ever seeking to exit from the ways of life into which they had been born,
devoted themselves to exploring a second cultural identity as an intrinsic part of
their first. Richard Burton, the British traveler and writer, sought to experience
the inner life of Islam by making the pilgrimage to Mecca in the guise of a Muslim
in 1853. T. E. Lawrence, famously known as Lawrence of Arabia, recounted his tortuous
ties to the Arab uprising against Turkish rule in his celebrated Seven Pillars of
Wisdom. Louis Massignon was a great, deeply introspective, and profoundly troubled
French Catholic scholar of Islam. Chinua Achebe, the celebrated pioneer of modern
African literature, lived and wrote from the intersection of Western culture and traditional
African life. Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, explored the attraction and
repulsion between East and West in his native Turkey. Seigel considers these five
individuals not only for the intrinsic interest of their stories but also for the
depth and breadth of their writing on the challenges of creating an intercultural
identity, enabling him to analyze their experiences via historical, psychological,
and critical approaches. Fascinating in and of themselves, these lives between cultures
also highlight the realities faced by many in this age of high mobility and ever-greater
global connection and raise questions about what it means for human beings to belong
to cultures.
Sujet(s) : Burton, Richard Francis (1821-1890)
Lawrence, Thomas Edward (1888-1935)
Massignon, Louis (1883-1962)
Achebe, Chinua (1930-2013)
Pamuk, Orhan (1952-....)
Culture -- Psychologie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-8122-4761-9. - ISBN 0812247612 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45313373n
Notice n° :
FRBNF45313373
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