Representing the Exotic and the Familiar (eBook)

Politics and perception in literature

Grover Madhu Grover, Bharat Meenakshi Bharat (Herausgeber)

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2019
383 Seiten
John Benjamins Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-90-272-6190-8 (ISBN)

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The multicultural world of today is often said to be marked by a certain kind of exoticization: a "e;fetishizing process"e;, as Graham Huggan has called it, which separates a "e;first world"e; from a "e;third world"e;, 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 "e;exotic"e; to the comparatively "e;familiar"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.11.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 90-272-6190-3 / 9027261903
• ISBN-13: 978-90-272-6190-8 / 9789027261908