Aravamudans most recent book displays his characteristic provocation, range, and ambition. A new book length study, on the eighteenthcentury french and british oriental tale, enlightenment orientalism. This event was cosponsored by english, romance studies, the program in literature, and the center for art, philosophy and literature pal at duke. Srinivas aravamudans enlightenment orientalism argues that existing accounts of the rise of the novel distort the true breadth of eighteenthcentury imaginative fiction. Srinivas aravamudans enlightenment orientalism erudit. Srinivas aravamudan, professor of english and former dean of the humanities at duke, died on wednesday. The study includes expert readings of many overlooked oriental fictions as well as fresh interpretations of the highlights of the genre. Apr, 2016 srinivas aravamudan, professor of english and former dean of the humanities at duke, died on wednesday. This book brings together two arenas 18thcentury studies and postcolonial theory in order to interrogate the role and reputation of enlightenment in the context of early european colonial ambitions and postcolonial interrogations of western imperial aspirations.
Aravamudan answers the query by challenging the assumption that orientalism, 1. Resisting the rise of the novel, has just been published by the university of chicago press 2012. Srinivas aravamudan is professor of english, romance studies, and the literature program at duke university. Enlightenment orientalism university of chicago press. Kenshur prize for the best book in eighteenthcentury studies published in 2012 to srinivas aravamudans enlightenment orientalism. A booklength study on the eighteenthcentury french and british oriental tale, enlightenment orientalism. A book by dukes srinivas aravamudan has been honored by indiana university. Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of european imperial practices have transformed our understanding of colonial ideology, resistance, and cultural contact. What form of narration can lend itself to a passage of time that is geological in scale. Aravamudan terms this enlightenment orientalism, a plural, fertile pursuit of knowledge through fictional play that builds on the philological and theological investigations of renaissance.
In enlightenment orientalism, srinivas aravamudan focuses on the segment of enlightenment thought that might seem most vulnerable to charges of complicity with the imperial projectbut it is precisely in the unexpected site of orientalism that his intriguing book finds an underexploited possibility for resistance. Rather than framing his critique around the persistence of a particular genre like the romance, as others have done, aravamudan groups together a diverse array of prose fictions whose themes, rhetoric, and transmission. Srinivas aravamudan professor of english, literature, and. He joined the duke english department in the fall of 2000. Resisting the rise of the novel by srinivas aravamudan isbn. Aravamudans areas of expertise include 18th century literature, british literature, postcolonial literature and critical theory. Enlightenment orientalism, enlightenment orientalism. Duke professor srinivas aravamudan reveals how oriental tales, pseudoethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Rather, it is an acknowledgment of the widespread influence saids work in particular, and postcolonial. Exoticism in the enlightenment download ebook pdf, epub. Naming this body of fiction enlightenment orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby.
Resisting the rise of the novel srinivas aravamudan naming this body of fiction enlightenment orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the rise of the novel. Highlighting the humanities aravamudan hamilton college. Sep 22, 2014 given this powerful critical alliance lined up against the socalled age of awakening, srinivas aravamudans characterization of his book, enlightenment orientalism, as a heretical exercise is perhaps not just tongue in cheek 3. Resisting the rise of the novel on friday, february 20, 2015.
Mar 23, 2015 duke professor srinivas aravamudan reveals how oriental tales, pseudoethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Resisting the rise of the novel srinivas aravamudan university of chicago press, 2011 library of congress pn56. Srinivas aravamudan professor of english, literature. He was a professor of english, literature, and romance studies at duke university, where he also served as dean of the humanities. As aravamudan succinctly observes at the books outset, because trope is transitive, it swerves from selfadequation to surplus. Enlightenment orientalism has been a victim of, what. At duke, he is a professor in the departments of english, romance studies, and the program in literature. Rather than framing his critique around the persistence of a particular genre like the romance, as others have done, aravamudan groups together a diverse array of prose. Prize citation srinivas aravamudan, enlightenment orientalism.
Faculty bookwatch srinivas aravamudans enlightenment orientalism. Srinivas aravamudan here reveals how oriental tales, pseudoethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Aravamudan calls, saidian orientalism, referring to edward saids masterful depiction of a colonizing. Resisting the rise of the novel, srinivas aravamudan is published by university of chicago press. More than mere exoticism, tales of the orient fascinated ordinary readers as well as intellectuals, taking the fancy of philosophers such as voltaire, montesquieu, and diderot. Enlightenment orientalism ebook by srinivas aravamudan. A sophisticated reinterpretation of the history of the novel, enlightenment orientalism is sure to be welcomed as a landmark work in eighteenthcentury studies.
Naming this body of fiction enlightenment orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly narratives about the. Durham, nc srinivas aravamudan, professor of english and former dean of the humanities at duke, died on wednesday. Enlightenment orientalism by aravamudan, srinivas ebook. Resisting the rise of the novel, srinivas aravamudan follows in the footsteps of seventeenth and eighteenthcentury critics, on both sides of the channel, in order to remind us of a moment at which an alternative genealogy of the novel wasand continues to. He divides his study into two sections, pseudoethnographies and transcultural allegories. Srinivas aravamudan here reveals how oriental tales, pseudoethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took europe by storm during the eighteenth. Aravamudan, enlightenment orientalism is an openended thought experiment, and his technique honors its fluidity although at times it makes the study repetitive and difficult to navigate. The franklin humanities institute and duke university libraries hosted a faculty bookwatch panel discussion on srinivas aravamudans enlightenment orientalism. Given this powerful critical alliance lined up against the socalled age of awakening, srinivas aravamudans characterization of his book, enlightenment orientalism, as a heretical exercise is perhaps not just tongue in cheek 3. Resisting the rise of the novel by srinivas aravamudan mr. Aravamudan shows that enlightenment orientalism was a significant movement that criticized irrational european practices even while sympathetically bridging differences among civilizations. Duke professor srinivas aravamudan revealed how oriental tales, pseudo ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took europe by storm during the. Srinivas aravamudan 1962 april, 2016 was an indianborn american academic. Srinivas aravamudan was appointed dean of the humanities at duke university in july 2009.
Enlightenment orientalism by srinivas aravamudan john. Srinivas aravamudan gained his phd at cornell university and has taught at the university of utah, and at the university of washington. By drawing these parallel tracks, aravamudan shows that writers working within the mode of enlightenment orientalism continued to provide a countertheory of the novel throughout the eighteenth century, as they displaced fiction outside the nation and avoided the boundary policing inherent to realist fiction. The following reproduces a roundtable discussion which took place at the cultures of global exchange on srinivas aravamudan s enlightenment orientalism. Srinivas aravamudan, professor of english and former dean of humanities at duke university, died on april. He specializes in eighteenthcentury british and french literature and in postcolonial literature and theory. Srinivas aravamudan srinivas aravamudan here reveals how oriental tales, pseudoethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction enlightenment orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of oriental tales and domestic fiction, thereby challenging standard scholarly srinivas aravamudan here reveals how oriental tales, pseudoethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took europe by storm during the eighteenth century. His book is a good manual for training landys own readers in how to become formative teachers. It offers a deeply revisionist take on some of the most.
Resisting the rise of the novel ebook written by srinivas aravamudan. Aravamudans enlightenment orientalism received this years kenshur prize, given each year by indianas center for eighteenthcentury studies. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Srinivas aravamudan, duke university dean of humanities.
Srinivas aravamudans enlightenment orientalism makes significant contributions to the study of eighteenthcentury fiction from a transnational perspective. Eighteenthcentury english and french fiction, srinivas aravamudan shows, staged a. Srinivas aravamudan, a professor and dean of humanities at duke university, will give the first lecture of the 2014 georgia colloquium in 18th and 19th century british literature at the university of georgia. Former dean at duke university srinivas aravamudan passes. A sophisticated reinterpretation of the history of the novel, enlightenment orientalism. Download pdf exoticism in the enlightenment free online. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read enlightenment orientalism. The enlightenment has played a complex but often unacknowledged role in this discussion, alternately reviled and venerated as the harbinger of colonial dominion and avatar of liberation, as target and shield, as shadow and.
Aravamudan, a scholar of 18thcentury british and french literature and postcolonial literature, was also a champion of the humanities, committed to nurturing and promoting their role in contemporary society. Over the last thirty years, postcolonial critiques of europ. For enlightenment orientalism, aravamudan received a choice outstanding academic title award, the barbara perkins and george perkins prize for the most significant contribution to the study of narrative from the international society for the study of narrative, and the oscar kenshur prize for the best book in eighteenthcentury studies from indiana universitys center for eighteenthcentury studies. Resisting the rise of the novel, srinivas aravamudan follows in the footsteps of seventeenth and eighteenthcentury critics, on both sides of the channel, in order to remind us of a moment at which an alternative genealogy of the novel wasand continues to remainpossible. This controversial and revisionist coinage comes from edward saids 1978 book, orientalism, which describes orientalism as a western style for dominating, restructuring and having authority over the orient, and a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that. Naming this body of fiction enlightenment orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence. Rather, it is an acknowledgment of the widespread influence saids work in particular, and postcolonial studies in. More than mere exoticism, tales of the orient fascinated ordinary readers as well as intellectuals, taking the fancy of philosophers such as voltaire, montesquieu, and diderot in france, and writers such as.
Imagined islam and the notion of sublime power routledge. Srinivas aravamudan here reveals how oriental tales, pseudoethn. Resisting the rise of the novel srinivas aravamudan srinivas aravamudan here reveals how oriental tales, pseudoethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took europe by storm during the eighteenth century. Naming this body of fiction enlightenment orientalism, he poses a range of urgent questions that uncovers the interdependence of oriental tales and domestic fiction. Dean of the humanities and professor of english and the program in literature, duke university. Resisting the rise of the novel enlightenment orientalism. And without examining enlightenment orientalism as a fictional mode, one cannot possibly understand the enormously systematic discipline by which european culture is able to manageand even produce both the novel and the orient politically, sociologically, ideologically, and imaginatively during the postenlightenment period. In his book, srinivas aravamudan reveals how easternthemed tales, pseudoethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took europe by storm in the 18th century. Resisting the rise of the novel university of chicago press.
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