"The multicultural world of today is often said to be marked by a certain kind of exoticization: a "fetishizing process", as Graham Huggan has called it, which separates a "first world" from a "third world", the Occident from the Orient. The essays collected here r...

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Weitere Verfasser:	Bharat, Meenakshi, 1959- (HerausgeberIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Schriftenreihe:	FILLM studies in languages and literatures ; v. 12.
Schlagworte:	Exoticism in literature. Other (Philosophy) in literature. Altérité dans la littérature. Exoticism in literature Other (Philosophy) in literature Electronic book.
Online-Zugang:	Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	"The multicultural world of today is often said to be marked by a certain kind of exoticization: a "fetishizing process", as Graham Huggan has called it, which separates a "first world" from a "third world", the Occident from the Orient. The essays collected here re-assess this tendency, not least by focusing on the kinds of intellectual tourism and dilettantism to which it has given rise. The wider context of these analyses is a postcolonial scenario where literatures and languages can move from the "exotic" to the comparatively "familiar" space of contemporary writings; where an exotic mythos can live on into the familiar present; and where certain perceptions and representations of peoples, of literatures, and of languages have turned exoticization and familiarization into global modes of mass-cultural consumption. Especially by exploring the liminalities between different cultures, this collection manages to trace both the history and the politics of exoticist representation and, in so doing, to make a significant critical intervention"--
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xix, 363 pages)
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:	9789027261908 9027261903
ISSN:	2213-428X ;