Ebook: From cannibals to radicals : figures and limits of exoticism
- Tags: French literature -- History and criticism. Exoticism in literature. Culture conflict in literature. Naipaul V. S. -- (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) -- 1932- -- Criticism and interpretation. Naipaul V. S. <1932-> - (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) Littérature française -- Histoire et critique. Naipaul V. S. -- (Vidiadhar Surajprasad) -- 1932- Exotisme dans la litté
- Year: 1996
- Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
- City: Französisch., Minneapolis
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Annotation
The objective to this study is, essentially, to arrive at a view of exoticism as a relation between (Western) Self and (exotic) Other that is fluctuatingly tenuous or strong depending on the narrating subject's position vis-a-vis a point of departure (and return) that I have alternately called Home, Center, and audience.
Abstract: Annotation
The objective to this study is, essentially, to arrive at a view of exoticism as a relation between (Western) Self and (exotic) Other that is fluctuatingly tenuous or strong depending on the narrating subject's position vis-a-vis a point of departure (and return) that I have alternately called Home, Center, and audience