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9789042012523: "New" Exoticisms: Changing Patterns in the Construction of Otherness
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ISBN 10 : 9042012528 ISBN 13 : 9789042012523
Editeur : Editions Rodopi B.V., 2000

Synopsis

All civilisations have both feared and been fascinated by what lies beyond their limits, and have to a greater or lesser extent construed their others as exotics. Given that, even in its most consumerist fashion, the adoption of the exotic goes back a long way, what, then if anything is new in contemporary versions of exoticism? This volume attempts to offer some answers to this question. The first of its three sections serves as an extended introduction to the concept and practice of exoticism, considering the phenomenon from a number of theoretical and critical positions, explicitly examining sometimes via significant examples the particular attributes of exoticism. The second and third sections are more strictly text-based, relying on the analysis of specific instances of film in the former and literature in the latter, in order to tease out some specific uses of the exotic whether ethnic, gendered, sexual or other. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of representation, cultural theory, postcolonialism, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, cinema and literature.

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All civilisations have both feared and been fascinated by what lies beyond their limits, and have to a greater or lesser extent construed their others as exotics. Given that, even in its most consumerist fashion, the adoption of the exotic goes back a long way, what, then if anything is new in contemporary versions of exoticism? This volume attempts to offer some answers to this question. The first of its three sections serves as an extended introduction to the concept and practice of exoticism, considering the phenomenon from a number of theoretical and critical positions, explicitly examining sometimes via significant examples the particular attributes of exoticism. The second and third sections are more strictly text-based, relying on the analysis of specific instances of film in the former and literature in the latter, in order to tease out some specific uses of the exotic whether ethnic, gendered, sexual or other. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of representation, cultural theory, postcolonialism, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, cinema and literature.

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Éditeur
Editions Rodopi B.V.
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9042012528
ISBN 13 
9789042012523
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
262
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Personne responsable
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