Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: The Predicaments of Belatedness 1
5. 1. Orientalist Desire, Desire for the Orient: Ideological Splits in Nerval 18
6. 2. From Travelogue to Tourist Guide: The Orientalist as Sightseer 35
7. 3. Notes on Notes, or with Flaubert in Paris, Egypt 53
8. 4. Kipling's "Other" Narrator/Reader: Self-Exoticism and the Micropolitics of Colonial Ambivalence 73
9. 5. Colonial Ethnography and the Politics of Gender: The Everyday Life of an Orientalist Journey 92
10. 6. Allahou-Akbar! He Is a Woman: Colonialism, Transvestism, and the Orientalist Parasite 113
11. "Tristesse du Depart": An Open-ended Conclusion 133
12. Notes 139
13. Bibliography 151
14. Index 159