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The Postcolonial Exotic

2002-09-26 Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Postcolonial Exotic by : Graham Huggan

Download or read book The Postcolonial Exotic written by Graham Huggan. This book was released on 2002-09-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing? In The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their cultural field. Using varied methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run through postcolonial studies, and the means by which postcolonial products are marketed and domesticated for Western consumption. Global in scope, the book takes in everything from: * the latest 'Indo-chic' to the history of the Heinemann African Writers series * from the celebrity stakes of the Booker Prize to those of the US academic star-system *from Canadian multicultural anthologies to Australian 'tourist novels'. This timely and challenging volume points to the urgent need for a more carefully grounded understanding of the processes of production, dissemination and consumption that have surrounded the rapid development of the postcolonial field.

The Postcolonial Exotic

2001 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2001
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Download or read book The Postcolonial Exotic written by Graham Huggan. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis.

Essay on Exoticism

2002-01-03 Philosophy
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Release : 2002-01-03
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Essay on Exoticism by : Victor Segalen

Download or read book Essay on Exoticism written by Victor Segalen. This book was released on 2002-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “Other”—source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the contemporary academic landscape. Victor Segalen’s early attempt to theorize the exotic is a crucial reference point for all discussions of alterity, diversity, and ethnicity. Written over the course of fourteen years between 1904 and 1918, at the height of the age of imperialism, Essay on Exoticism encompasses Segalen’s attempts to define “true Exoticism.” This concept, he hoped, would not only replace nineteenth-century notions of exoticism that he considered tawdry and romantic, but also redirect his contemporaries’ propensity to reduce the exotic to the “colonial.” His critique envisions a mechanism that appreciates cultural difference—which it posits as an aesthetic and ontological value—rather than assimilating it: “Exoticism’s power is nothing other than the ability to conceive otherwise,” he writes. Segalen’s pioneering work on otherness anticipates and informs much of the current postcolonial critique of colonial discourse. As such Essay on Exoticism is essential reading for both cultural theorists or those with an interest in the politics of difference and diversity.

Interdisciplinary Measures

2008-02-01 Political Science
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Release : 2008-02-01
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Interdisciplinary Measures by : Graham Huggan

Download or read book Interdisciplinary Measures written by Graham Huggan. This book was released on 2008-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary Measures makes the case for a cross-disciplinary, but literature-centred, approach to postcolonial studies. Despite the anxieties that interdisciplinarity brings with it, a combination of different, discontinuously structured disciplinary knowledges is arguably best suited to address the tangled concerns of both the globalised present and the colonial past. The book looks specifically at the intersections between literary criticism, history, anthropology, geography and environmental studies, while arguing more specifically for a postcolonialism across the disciplines in the service of informed (cross-) cultural critique. Bringing together a wide range of literary material from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand and South Asia, the book also considers the different, but sometimes related, cultural contexts within which the key debates in postcolonial studies – e.g. those around globalisation, North-South relations and the new imperialism – are currently taking place. These debates suggest the need for a multi-sited, multilinguistic and, not least, multidisciplinary appraoch to postcolonial studies that consolidates its status as a comparative field.

The Postcolonial Exotic

2002-09-26 Language Arts & Disciplines
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Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis The Postcolonial Exotic by : Graham Huggan

Download or read book The Postcolonial Exotic written by Graham Huggan. This book was released on 2002-09-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis.

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