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1. www.postcolonial.org › article › downloadWhen the East is a Career: The Question of Exoticism in ...

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   critics is understandable. The exoticism critique is underpinned by charges of bad faith, and of a certain complicity with colonialist and elitist ideologies. However, the counter-atta cks presented by the writers do not do justice to the exoticism critique. Looking at both the historical and 1 Wrongly so of course. India has rich and vibrant ...

   • Author: Nivedita Majumdar

   • Publish Year: 2009

2. www.jstor.org › stable › 45179298Introduction: From the Exotic to the Autoexotic - JSTOR

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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 ...

3. academic.oup.com › book › 27073Defining the Exotic: Exoticism as an Approach to Radical ...

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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 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.

   • Author: Daniela Berghahn

5. www.cambridge.org › core › booksWriting at the Margins: Postcolonialism, Exoticism and the ...

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   Jul 10, 2024 · 1 Writing at the Margins: Postcolonialism, Exoticism and the Politics of Cultural Value (from The Postcolonial Exotic) 2 Exiles on Main Stream: Valuing the Popularity of Postcolonial Literature (from Friends and Enemies) 3 Postcolonial Authorship Revisited (from Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace) 4 Bourdieu and Fanon on ...

6. www.jstor.org › stable › 43263653Travelling Concepts: Postcolonial Approaches to Exoticism

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   exoticism depends, he claims: 4 "In theory" there are no more hori-zons, but "in reality" they still exist'.11 Exoticism is characterized by a twin yet contradictory movement - by a cycle of decline and regen-eration - as a result of which exotisme , a term dismissed as obsolescent by French colonial authors in the inter-war period, has re-emerged

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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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   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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   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?

   • Like world cinema, exoticism is a travelling concept that depends on mobility and the crossing of cultural boundaries to come into existence.

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8. www.degruyter.com › document › doiEssay on Exoticism - De Gruyter

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   Jan 3, 2002 · Reviews. “At a time when the moral battles for the ‘other’ have been waged, when the constructedness of identities has been demonstrated in extenso, it comes as a refreshing surprise to see Segalen struggle with the terminology of otherness and difference in the context of the term exoticism. His ruminations represent a fascinating and ...