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From cannibals to radicals : figures and limits of exoticism /

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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Célestin, Roger
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1996.
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Table des matières:
  • 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.