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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 ...
- Graham Huggan
- 2016
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.
Jan 5, 2023 · In the following analysis of Heart of Darkness, the researcher will draw on the theoretical framework of Postcolonial Exoticism to demonstrate how the novel provides a representation of the exotic other that on one hand plays into the end-of-the-century colonial desire for exotic otherness, and on the other seeks to reassure their anxiety about this otherness.
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.
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 ...
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. The expression "postcolonial discourse" refers ...
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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.
