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John Docker is Honorary Professor in Humanities at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Originally trained as a literary critic, he has published widely in cultural history, intellectual history, and media studies. His publications include In a Critical Condition (1984), The Nervous Nineties: Australian cultural life in the 1890s (1991), Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History (1994), 1492: The Poetics of Diaspora (2001), The Origins of Violence: Religion, History and Genocide (2008), and, with Ann Curthoys, Is History Fiction? (revised edition, 2010). His trilogy, Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi: An Ego Histoire, a Dictionary of Modernity, An Autobiography, a Romance, was published in 2020.

John Docker

John Docker is Honorary Professor in Humanities at the University of Sydney, Australia, and a member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Originally trained as a literary critic, he has published widely in cultural history, intellectual history, and media studies. His publications include In a Critical Condition (1984), The Nervous Nineties: Australian cultural life in the 1890s (1991), Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History (1994), 1492: The Poetics of Diaspora (2001), The Origins of Violence: Religion, History and Genocide (2008), and, with Ann Curthoys, Is History Fiction? (revised edition, 2010). His trilogy, Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi: An Ego Histoire, a Dictionary of Modernity, An Autobiography, a Romance, was published in 2020.

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Legacies of Orientalism and Slavery in European Intellectual and Literary History

By: John Docker
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This exercise in ethical criticism regards cultural texts as friends for conversation. It explores female agency, colonialism, and slavery through figures from Joan of Arc to Princess Diana and texts from The Thousand and One Nights to a radical re-reading of Middlemarch.

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