| Title: | L’opium dans le contexte de l’imaginaire colonial. Voyages dans l’orient et intoxications opiacées |
| Author: | Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu |
| Publication: | Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brașov. Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies, 2, p. 59 |
| p-ISSN: | 2066-768X |
| e-ISSN: | 2066-7698 |
| Publisher: | Transilvania University Press |
| Place: | Brașov |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Abstract: | The present study focuses on the representation of opiates in colonial French and British travelogues during the 19th century. One of the major concepts is that of travel, inherited from the Romantic imagery but given new meanings and dimensions. ‘Orientalism’ and exoticism have penetrated European culture in direct connection to the idea of travelling and otherness and have become a fashion especially during Romantic and post-Romantic literature. Colonialism has brought, especially during the second half of the 19th century, a new dimension to the Far East attraction. Travelling to the colonies has become a more or less common activity, while the strangeness of otherness is now touchable and even appropriated. Opium has played a major part in both type of travels, but in what we call here ‘colonial literature’ its part, especially in stereotypical representations of the East has become essential. Colonial exoticism ‘dresses up’ a body of stereotypes, within which the viewer’s own perspective and culture lead to a subjective (‘European’) and often artificial perception of the East. |
| Key words: | Opium, colonies, travel, travelogue, Far-East, 19th century |
| Language: | French |
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