Format:
VIII, 239 S.
ISBN:
0-19-508579-5
Content:
In the first comprehensive study of Occidentalism in post-Mao China, Xiaomei Chen offers an insightful account of the unremittingly favorable depiction of Western culture and its negative characterization of Chinese culture in post-Mao China from 1978-1988. She examines the cultural and political interrelations between the East and West from a vantage point more complex than that accommodated by most current theories of Western imperialism and colonialism
Content:
Going beyond Edward Said's construction in Orientalism of cross-cultural appropriations as a defining facet of Western imperialism, Chen argues that the appropriation of Western discourse - what she calls "Occidentalism" - can actually have a politically and ideologically liberating effect on contemporary non-Western culture. She maintains that simplistic allegations of Orientalism frequently found in current critical discourses seriously underestimate the complexities of intercultural and multicultural relationships
Content:
Occidentalism presents a new model of comparative literary and cultural studies that reenvisions cross-cultural appropriation. It will be indispensable to future discussions of Orientalism, Occidentalism, and postcolonialism, as well as subaltern studies, Asian studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, and non-Western drama
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Okzidentalisierende Literatur
;
Kultur
;
Kulturwandel
;
Okzidentalisierende Literatur
URL:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0605/93044883-d.html
Author information:
Chen, Xiaomei
