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   Rejecting the reductive nineteenth-century versions of exoticism whose stereotypical simplicity, ideological overtones and complicity with the French colonial project risked (as Segalen had foreseen) discrediting the term, the late twentieth century witnessed a process of reappropriation and reconsideration of the problematic mechanics of relation to the exotic.

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   May 8, 2024 · Exoticism: Definition of a Theoretical Term. Exoticism is a mode of representation that focuses on the perceived differences between cultures, often emphasizing the foreign, unfamiliar, or “other.”. It can involve objectification, idealization, and the reinforcement of power imbalances between the observer and the observed.

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   May 31, 2021 · As I have demonstrated elsewhere (Berghahn, 2017), contemporary world cinema offers numerous examples of how exoticism is harnessed to new ethico-political agendas and a diverse range of humanitarian and ecological issues that have nothing in common with exoticism’s tainted colonial legacy.

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   There is no simple or correct notion of hybridity: it changes as it repeats, it also repeats as it changes.’ 24 At the core of this chapter is a similar assumption about exoticism, another persistent term whose originally colonial overtones were slowly transformed until it re-emerged as a common yet contested item of currency in a postcolonial context: exoticism itself also changes as it ...

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   the colonial empires. After all, as early as the 1910s, Victor Segalen redefined exoticism as an "aesthetics of diversity," despite its prob-lematic politics of power. The cultural, lin-guistic, psychological, and epistemological dynamics in exoticism encompass complex relations that are underexplored. We there-fore think that a more fluid and ...

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   Apr 4, 2021 · The colonial school attempted to promote a so-called ‘exotisme colonial’. This oxymoronic concept, torn between the perpetuation of difference inherent in exoticism and the absorption of this same difference implied by the assimilationist policies of the Greater France, represents a contemporary orthodoxy of exoticism against which Segalen’s work is a reaction.

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   Is exoticism a tainted colonial legacy?

   • As I have demonstrated elsewhere ( Berghahn, 2017 ), contemporary world cinema offers numerous examples of how exoticism is harnessed to new ethico-political agendas and a diverse range of humanitarian and ecological issues that have nothing in common with exoticism’s tainted colonial legacy.

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   Does exoticism still exist?

   • In our view, however, there is much more to exoticism than the priation of the weak by the powerful, nor has it remained fundamentally unchanged since the colonial empires. After all, as early as the 1910s, Victor Segalen redefined exoticism as an "aesthetics of diversity," despite its prob-lematic politics of power. The cultural, lin-

   Introduction: From the Exotic to the Autoexotic - JSTOR

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   What is exoticism based on?

   • Exoticism is a mode of representation that focuses on the perceived differences between cultures, often emphasizing the foreign, unfamiliar, or “other.” It can involve objectification, idealization, and the reinforcement of power imbalances between the observer and the observed.

   Exoticism in Literature & Literary Theory - Theoretical Terms

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   What is the status of exoticism in a post-colonial world?

   • The status of exoticism in a so-called post-colonial world remains problematic, definition of the exotic inevitably ambiguous. As a result, engagement with Segalen’s work becomes strikingly urgent in this period of constant reassessment.

   Defining the Exotic: Exoticism as an Approach to Radical Diversity

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   Jul 10, 2024 · 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.