| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 363 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
FILLM studies in languages and literatures,
2213-428X ;
volume 12
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FILLM studies in languages and literatures ; v. 12.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
"The multicultural world of today is often said to be marked by a certain kind of exoticization: a "fetishizing process", as Graham Huggan has called it, which separates a "first world" from a "third world", the Occident from the Orient. The essays collected here re-assess this tendency, not least by focusing on the kinds of intellectual tourism and dilettantism to which it has given rise. The wider context of these analyses is a postcolonial scenario where literatures and languages can move from the "exotic" to the comparatively "familiar" space of contemporary writings; where an exotic mythos can live on into the familiar present; and where certain perceptions and representations of peoples, of literatures, and of languages have turned exoticization and familiarization into global modes of mass-cultural consumption. Especially by exploring the liminalities between different cultures, this collection manages to trace both the history and the politics of exoticist representation and, in so doing, to make a significant critical intervention"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Exoticism in literature.
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Exoticism in literature. |
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Other (Philosophy) in literature.
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Other (Philosophy) in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Bharat, Meenakshi, 1959- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Representing the exotic and the familiar. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2019 9789027204189 (DLC) 2019029455 |
| ISBN |
9789027261908 (electronic book) |
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9027261903 (electronic book) |
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9789027204189 (hardcover) |
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