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Berghahn’s meticulous scholarship, comprehensive writing, and well-constructed argument are praised for decentering concepts such as the exotic and exoticism, inviting readers to rethink them.
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.
- Daniela Berghahn
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.
Apr 23, 2020 · Abstract. This essay explores some of the effects recent developments have had on my earlier notions in The Postcolonial Exotic (2001). I will refer to two postcolonial writers, both of Sikh-Punjabi origin, who have come to prominence recently: the British-based poet Daljit Nagra and the Canadian-based poet Rupi Kaur.
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
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.
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European explorers used exoticism as a justification to subjugate native persons. Landscape, race and the internal sense of self is tainted by colonial exoticism, a form of exoticism with the main intentions rooted in the ideas of subjugation and power.
