The postcolonial exotic : marketing the margins /
Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing? In The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their cultur...
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| Typ dokumentu: | Kniha |
| Jazyk: | Angličtina |
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London :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2001
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| Vydání: | First published |
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Postcolonial exotic |
Obsah:
- Introduction: writing at the margins: postcolonialism, exoticism and the politics of cultural value
- 1. African literature and the anthropological exotic
- 2. Consuming India
- 3. Staged marginalities: Rushdie, Naipaul, Kureishi
- 4. Prizing otherness: a short history of the Booker
- 5. Exoticism, ethnicity and the multicultural fallacy
- 6. Ethnic autobiography and the cult of authenticity
- 7. Transformations of the tourist gaze: Asia in recent Canadian and Australian fiction
- 8. Margaret Atwood, Inc., or, some thoughts on literary celebrity
- Conclusion: thinking at the margins: postcolonial studies at the millennium