2004
DOI: 10.1353/mfs.2004.0015
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Borges the Post-Orientalist: Images of Islam from the Edge of the West

Abstract: This article simply examines the representation of the Islamic Orient in the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, and suggests two things: 1) that Borges's different representations of Islam in his texts—Arab philosophers, Persian myths, Sufi motifs, quotations from the Koran—are best understood by a different set of Orientalist voices that Borges employs, from context to context, to best communicate his Oriental content and 2) that Borges's stories, understood in a chronological sequence, ultimately demons… Show more

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“…It may be, as Ian Almond argues, that Borges has 'stumbled upon Edward Said's main point: that whenever Westerners write about the Orient, they invariably end up writing about themselves'. 37 It may be, too (if we look at the issue from the viewpoint of genre) that ambiguity is the trademark of modern parables. In another famous parable, 'The Wall and the Books', Borges ends his meditation on emperor Shih Huang Ti's incomprehensible acts (building the Great Wall; burning all the books) with this profoundly tentative statement: 'This imminence of a revelation that does not take place is, perhaps, the aesthetic fact'.…”
Section: Modern Parables Failed Epiphaniesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It may be, as Ian Almond argues, that Borges has 'stumbled upon Edward Said's main point: that whenever Westerners write about the Orient, they invariably end up writing about themselves'. 37 It may be, too (if we look at the issue from the viewpoint of genre) that ambiguity is the trademark of modern parables. In another famous parable, 'The Wall and the Books', Borges ends his meditation on emperor Shih Huang Ti's incomprehensible acts (building the Great Wall; burning all the books) with this profoundly tentative statement: 'This imminence of a revelation that does not take place is, perhaps, the aesthetic fact'.…”
Section: Modern Parables Failed Epiphaniesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…s frecuente que los trabajos que abordan la temática oriental en la producción de Borges -y, particularmente, su relación con el islam-comiencen señalando la insuficiencia o escasez de estudios sobre esta cuestión (Elia, 1998;Almond, 2004;Betancort, 2010;Mbaye, 2016). Si bien esta afirmación debería matizarse, ya que en los últimos años puede constatarse un creciente interés por las relaciones de Borges con la literatura y el pensamiento oriental, es indudable que se trata de un terreno que amerita seguir explorándose, especialmente considerando la relevancia que el tópico tiene en la producción borgeana.…”
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“…LINGÜÍSTICA Y LITERATURA ISSN 0120-5587 E-ISSN 2422-3174 N. º 81, 2022, 387-405 389 previo. Almond (2004Almond ( , 2007, en este sentido, sitúa a Borges entre los postorientalistas. 2 El orientalismo argentino parecía reducirse o bien a la consideración de lo oriental como emblema de lo bárbaro, opuesto a la civilización occidental -como puede constatarse canónicamente en el Facundo de Domingo Faustino Sarmiento-, o bien a la mirada exotista, es decir, el uso de Oriente «para hablar de lo diferente, lo mágico y lo sobrenatural», que puede ilustrarse con ciertos relatos de Lugones (Gómez, 2015;Gasquet, 2010).…”
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