Representing the exotic and the familiar : politics and perception in literature /

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"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 r...

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Other Authors: Bharat, Meenakshi, 1959- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]
Series:FILLM studies in languages and literatures ; v. 12.
Subjects:
Exoticism in literature.
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Meenakshi Bharat, Madhu Grover
  • Forward. Literary politics and perception: Moving beyond representation / Elleke Boehmer
  • Part I. Traversing unfamiliar spaces. Chapter 1. Magical modernities: The familiar and the exotic on Indian lifestyle TV / Tania Lewis
  • Chapter 2. Kipling's "wild and strange" India: The "insider" perspective of the short stories / Madhu Grover
  • Chapter 3. Exoticism and familiarity in Victor Segalen's travel poetry / Ian Fookes
  • Chapter 4. Cambodia through Western eyes: The exotic, the familiar, and the universal / Robert Horne
  • Chapter 5. Italian travel narratives on twentieth century China: Alterity, distance and self-identification / Linetto Basilone
  • Chapter 6. Affect labelling as a means of challenging exotic stereotypes in readings of Salwa Bakr's "The Golden Chariot" / Christa Knellwolf King
  • Chapter 7. Exoticization of Russia and the Russian people in Polish literature / Barbara Sobczak, Monika Wójciak
  • Part II. Mediating local voices. Chapter 8. Power and powerlessness of the exotic status / Devika Brendon
  • Chapter 9. Challenging taxonomies of the "local" and the "exotic": The works of Hansda Showvendra Shekhar / Vibha S. Chauhan
  • Chapter 10. Overturning the familiar and the exotic: The fiction of Ranendra and Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar / Namita Sethi
  • Chapter 11. Translation as the interplay of the familiar and the exotic in A. K. Ramanujan's Poems of Love and War / S. Annapoorni
  • Chapter 12. Exotic and the familiar and translation / Mitra Phukan
  • Chapter 13. Play of the familiar and the exotic through the lens of Madhwacharya's Bhasha theory: The Sangraha Ramayana and its translations / Aparna Srinivas, Sunitha S. Rao
  • Chapter 14. Exoticizing 1984: Trauma, telling and the anti-Sikh pogrom / Ritika Singh
  • Part III. Transcending familiar boundaries. Chapter 15. André Brink's A Dry White Season as film: Foreignization and domestication / H. P. van Coller, A. van Jaarsveld
  • Chapter 16. No tiger in the tale: Effacing otherness in Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Suhaile Azavedo
  • Chapter 17. From exotic to domestic: The other, the native and cultural relativism in Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible / Ansul Rao
  • Chapter 18. V. S. Naipaul and Jhumpa Lahiri: The politics of identity and the performance of exoticism / Afrinul Haque Khan
  • Chapter 19. Turning the exotic into the familiar: Tabish Khair's novels and their contemporary cultural and political context / Liliana Sikorska
  • Chapter 20. Coloured exoticism in Toni Morrison's God Help the Child / Lekha Roy
  • Chapter 21. Exotic madness in Caribbean literature: From marginalization to empowerment and indigenization / Bénédicte Ledent
  • Chapter 22. Plant/woman encounters in contemporary fairy tale adaptations / Daniela Kato.

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