New exoticisms : : changing patterns in the construction of otherness / / edited by Isabel Santaolalla.
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- i...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi B.Y.,, [2000] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Postmodern Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 pages) |
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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. SUÁREZ: Exotica in Cyberspace: The Geographies of Hybridity in William Gibson's Neuromancer. Beatriz PENAS IBÁÑEZ/José Ángel GARCÍA LANDA: Intertextuality and Exoticism in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh . Francisco Collado RODRÍGUEZ: 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 SÁNCHEZ CALLE: Home as an Exotic and Real Place in Zami: A New Spelling of my Name , by Audre Lorde.