Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Politics and Perception in Literature

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027204187
• ISBN13: 9789027204189
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 363 Pages