"New" exoticisms : changing patterns in the construction of otherness
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"New" exoticisms : changing patterns in the construction of otherness
(Postmodern studies, 29)
Rodopi, 2000
- : pbk
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  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
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Description
All civilisations have both feared and been fascinated by what lies beyond their limits, and have to a greater or lesser extent construed their "others" as exotics. Given that, even in its most consumerist fashion, the adoption of the exotic goes back a long way, what, then -if anything- is new in contemporary versions of exoticism? This volume attempts to offer some answers to this question. The first of its three sections serves as an extended introduction to the concept and practice of exoticism, considering the phenomenon from a number of theoretical and critical positions, explicitly examining -sometimes via significant examples- the particular attributes of exoticism. The second and third sections are more strictly text-based, relying on the analysis of specific instances of film in the former and literature in the latter, in order to tease out some specific uses of the exotic -whether ethnic, gendered, sexual or other. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of representation, cultural theory, postcolonialism, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, cinema and literature.
Table of Contents
Isabel SANTAOLALLA: Introduction.
PART I: Kateryna OLIJNYK LONGLEY: Fabricating Otherness: Demidenko and Exoticism. Ron SHAPIRO: In Defence of Exoticism: Rescuing the Literary Imagination. Ovidi CARBONELL: Exoticism in Translation: Writing, Representation, and the Postcolonial Context. Else R. P. VIEIRA: Ex-otic-isms on Location: Re-Situating the Offshore. Satendra NANDAN: The Other Side of Paradise: From Erotica to Exotica to Exile. PART II: Graham HUGGAN: Exoticism, Ethnicity, and the Multicultural Fallacy. Martin ROBERTS: Transnational Geographic: Perspectives on Baraka. Chris PERRIAM: Queer Borders: Derek Jarman, The Garden. Bernard MCGUIRK: London Black And/Or White: My Beautiful Laundrette. Richard DYER: Whites are Nothing: Whiteness, Representation and Death. Peter W. EVANS: From Maria Montez to Jasmine: Hollywood's Oriental Odalisques. Isabel SANTAOLALLA: Three Colours, White, Black, and ... Italian. PART III: Juan A. SUAREZ: Exotica in Cyberspace: The Geographies of Hybridity in William Gibson's Neuromancer. Beatriz PENAS IBANEZ/Jose Angel GARCIA LANDA: Intertextuality and Exoticism in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh. Francisco Collado RODRIGUEZ: Facing the Other: Bharati Mukherjee's Healer of the World. Aitor IBARROLA ARMENDARIZ: Hybrid Identities: New Forms of Autobiography in Ethnic American Literature. Nieves PASCUAL SOLER: Autobiographies in La Frontera: Gloria Alzandua. Ma. Pilar SANCHEZ CALLE: Home as an Exotic and Real Place in Zami: A New Spelling of my Name, by Audre Lorde.
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