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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.
After the First World War, exoticism asserted itself in all its variety, from colonial exhibitions to Negro dances, from schoolbooks to literature (with André Demaison, André Gide or Henri Michaux, for example).
- Claudine Moïse
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- 5/15/2024 4:00:12 AM
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?
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.
COLONIAL DISCOURSE: A PARADIGM AND ITS DISCON TENTS. ACCORDING TO CRITICS LIKE DINESH D SOUZA, AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP HAS LATELY. been serving up (in Catherine Stimpson's paraphrase) "a poisonous smorgasbord. Third World studies that romanticizes developing countries and denigrates the (382).
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In this paper, I study the ways in which the novel and film of The English Patient question racial otherness and the concept of national identity. I argue that otherness is deliberately displaced through characterization, through ideologically disruptive images, through exotic scenery, and through structure.
