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Nov 9, 2000 · This chapter discusses new perspectives on exoticism, exoticism as an Aesthetics of Diversity, Victor Segalen's views on the exoticist tradition, and threats and responses to twentieth-century exoticism.
Dec 29, 2015 · As Graham Huggan notes in his book, The Post-Colonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins, exoticism makes the unfamiliar familiar while maintaining certain mysticism and manufacturing otherness, to a primarily Western audience. It is tied to power, having a history with colonialism.
The charge of exoticism issuing from a vulgarized Saidian legacy of vigilantism is ultimately grounded in a homogenized nationalist narrative and any departure from it is perceived to be “exotic” (113).
Summary. 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.
- Graham Huggan
- 2016
May 8, 2024 · Colonial Legacy: Exoticism is intertwined with the history of colonialism. Representations of the “exotic other” were often used to justify domination, exploitation, and the imposition of Western values and systems upon colonized territories.
Jan 3, 2002 · A series of notes on alterity written by Victor Segalen between 1904 and 1918, and here translated into English for the first time, anticipates the post-colonial critique of colonial theory.
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Apr 9, 2016 · Postcolonialism is characterized by the rejection of Western universalism and political imperialism, soon after independence gained by Asian and African countries, and an awareness that the colonizer's language is permanently tainted and to write in it involves a subjugation to colonial structures.
