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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?
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.
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.
Homi Bhabha argues that in order to understand the power of colonial discourse, what needs “to be questioned … is the mode of representation of otherness.” [5] For Bhabha, stereotypes in colonial discourse are linked to the psychic process of individuation.
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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Postcolonialism in the Age of Global Commodity Culture. The Trouble with Postcolonialism. Critiques of postcolonialism have intensified over the last decade, by no coincidence the decade that has also brought postcolonial studies to prominence as an institutionalized academic field.
