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Nov 9, 2000 · For some, exoticism is firmly fixed as an expired, nostalgic quantity to be seen as an inherent element of past colonial discourses. The republication of works by Pierre Loti and Claude Farrère seems to support this view.
If exoticism has arrived in the ‘centre,’ it still derives from the cultural margins or, perhaps more accurately, from a commodified discourse of cultural marginality. How is value ascribed to, and regulated within, the cultural margins?
Apr 4, 2021 · By placing Victor Segalen's exoticism in a colonial frame, it argues that texts emerging from colonial contact are not necessarily only part of a problematic archive, but can also propose novel solutions to contemporary investigations of colonial history and culture.
Exoticism is one point of postcolonial intersection and controversy whose study would facilitate the active dialogue Apter advocates and would permit a prizing open of academic and intellectual cultures.
The discourse of exoticism allows for multicultural celebration; it also provides a basis for considered self-critique. Exoticism relieves its practitioners, however, from the burdensome task of actually learning about "other" cultures. As Tzvetan Todorov says, The best candidatesfor the exotic label are the peoples and cultures that are most ...
As early as 1949, before the advent of postcolonial and poststructuralist gender theories, Simone de Beauvoir discussed issues of otherness and what Julia Kristeva would later call a process of “abjection” in the construction of identity. [1] .
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Jan 1, 2016 · His work laid the foundations for the postcolonial critique of colonial discourse. For Segalen, exoticism is a stance on the relationship with the self and the world, dependent on space and time. It is the perception of difference and the sensation of diversity, associated with novelty and worn out by routine (Segalen 1978/2002). Nevertheless ...