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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.
To criticize exoticism seems to mean criticizing discourses and representations of the other from the viewpoint of the center, the more powerful (i.e., Western) culture, the original rather than the derived, the subject that constructs and objectifies an ex-otic other for its own consumption.
A romanticization, fetishization, and/or commodification of ethnic, racial, or cultural otherness, as in orientalism, or primitivizing representations of the ‘noble savage’.
Jan 1, 2016 · Key reference points for discussions of diversity, difference, and Otherness appear in Segalen’s pioneering philosophical exploration of the concept of exoticism. His work laid the foundations for the postcolonial critique of colonial discourse .
- lizabk@illinois.edu
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
Apr 7, 2015 · The discussion provides an overview of scholarly approaches to exoticism over time, focusing on those scholars who have been most active in this field and on the influence of the cultural historian and critic Edward Said.
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Anthropology has often been criticized for its exoticism and orientalism. They are the paradoxes of a discipline focused on the comparative study of difference and diversity and are at the centre of the discussion here in the larger context of the importance of anthropology in the humanities and social sciences.
