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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.
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.
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?
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 ...
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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 ...
5 days ago · Ethnocentric stereotyping (as in Eurocentric views of non-European cultures), in which the other is marked by difference (see markedness). In post-colonial theory, this is identified as a form of objectification, marginalization, domination, oppression, and exploitation.
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If the study of colonial discourse has a founder, it is Edward W. Said, whose Orientalism remains far and away the most quoted text in the field. When it appeared in 1978, Orientalism seemed to offer just what critics like D'Souza most love to hate: an indictment of the entire Western tradition as such, without historical discriminations
