31.169, Books: Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Bharat, Grover (eds.)

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Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 16:53:07
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Representing the Exotic and the Familiar: Bharat, Grover (eds.)

 


Title: Representing the Exotic and the Familiar 
Subtitle: Politics and perception in literature 
Series Title: FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 12  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/fillm.12 


Editor: Meenakshi Bharat
Editor: Madhu Grover

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261908 Pages: 363 Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261908 Pages: 363 Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261908 Pages: 363 Price: Europe EURO 105.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204189 Pages: 363 Price: U.S. $ 158.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204189 Pages: 363 Price: U.K. £ 88.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027204189 Pages: 363 Price: Europe EURO 111.30


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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