Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xi, 254 pages)
,
illustrations
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0816686475
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0816626057
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9780816686476
,
9780816626052
Inhalt:
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
Inhalt:
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Exotic/Exoticism: Moving the Wor(l)d Around; 1. Montaigne: The Private, Savage Self; 2. Bougainville and Diderot: The Static Explorer and the Chameleon Philosopher; 3. Flaubert: The Cannibal Stylist; 4. Barthes: The Splendor of the Signifier; 5. Naipaul: The "Exotic" View; Conclusion: Trinkets from Outer Space; Notes; Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-249) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Célestin, Roger From cannibals to radicals Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1996
Sprache:
Englisch
