Orientalism, Islam, and Eroticism: Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton and the Arabian Nights
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The year 2021 marks the bicentenary of Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890). This discussion assesses Burton's career as a Victorian soldier, explorer, and writer through theoretical framework Edward Said's Orientalism. spent years immersed in languages cultures Arab-Islamic world; while serving an agent British Empire, he also challenged assumed western social moral superiority to eastern cultures. controversial translation Arabian Nights (1885–1888) reveals his resistance sexual norms by presenting East site erotic liberation. Defying censorship laws, delighted displaying knowledge pornography homosexual practices. As landmark European scholarship book considered shockingly explicit contemporaries, proves be major work enfant terrible fin de siècle.
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عنوان ژورنال: Victorians
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2475-6741', '2166-0107']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/vct.2021.0001