Fabulous Orients

Ballaster, Ros

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“…Oriental narratives were often 'moral' stories about European travellers' desires, rather than the places serving as dramatic backdrop. As far back as the eighteenth century, audiences in the west came to draw mental maps of other territories via stories, paintings, carpets and artefacts 'from' the Orient (Ballaster, 2005). The Arabian Nights is the English title for the collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic, translated into English during 1706-1721, which captured the imagination of western audiences and opportunities to displace fantasies of the 'other'.…”

Section: Earlier Oriental Narratives and Artefactsmentioning

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‘COVID Casablanca’: A case of Dubai’s British social media influencers and postdigital intermedia geographies

Hurley

2022

New Media & Society

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During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, British social media influencers posted pictures and stories from Dubai. As a result, the emirate faced an intense backlash from the British media. This study considers the British media’s motivations for constituting Dubai as Orientalist ‘other’ while uncovering earlier imagined geographies of the Orient. The study develops the novel concept of ‘intermedia geographies’ to trace intertextual links, tales, texts, content, audiences and discourses, as dynamic constellations of the postdigital condition. Unique methods of postdigital critical discourse analysis are developed to map a corpus of 20 British magazine, tabloid and broadsheet newspaper articles, which are the jumping-off point to intertextual references to television, film and earlier Oriental narratives. Theorizing levels up from description to nuanced analysis to illustrate that the themes of content, stance and social actors’ positioning within the corpus are indicative of Britain’s siloed mainstream audiences and postdigital reinforcements of colonial discourse.

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Section: Earlier Oriental Narratives and Artefactsmentioning

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‘COVID Casablanca’: A case of Dubai’s British social media influencers and postdigital intermedia geographies

Hurley

2022

New Media & Society

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“…The phrase 'Chinese whispers' echoes a sinophobic European tradition of representing spoken Chinese as "an incomprehensible and unpronounceable combination of sounds". 87 However, Ballaster argues that it can be taken as a useful metaphor in another sense:…”

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The Oeconomy of Human Life: An ‘Ancient Bramin’ In Eighteenth-Century Tibet

Bray¹

2009

JRAS

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The Oeconomy of Human Life purports to be an English translation of an ancient Indian text found by a Chinese scholar in Lhasa. Almost certainly written by Robert Dodsley (1704–1764), the book became an eighteenth-century bestseller. This article discusses its place in the varied lineage of western images of Asia, beginning with Alexander the Great's encounter with a group of ‘naked philosophers’ in India. It argues that the key features of the Oeconomy are representative of the Enlightenment period, with at best tenuous links to Tibet, India and China. However, it also belongs to a much broader literary tradition with deep roots and unexpected contemporary resonances.

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Behn, Aphra

Hayden¹

2015

The Encyclopedia of British Literature 1660‐1789

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Fabulous Orients

Cited by 5 publications

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‘COVID Casablanca’: A case of Dubai’s British social media influencers and postdigital intermedia geographies

‘COVID Casablanca’: A case of Dubai’s British social media influencers and postdigital intermedia geographies

The Oeconomy of Human Life: An ‘Ancient Bramin’ In Eighteenth-Century Tibet

Behn, Aphra

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