"New" Exoticisms: Changing Patterns in the Construction of Otherness

by Isabel Santaolalla

All civilisations have both feared and been fascinated by what lies beyond their limits, and have to a greater or lesser extent construed their others as exotics. Given that, even in its most consumerist fashion, the adoption of the exotic goes back a long way, what, then -if anything- is new in contemporary versions of exoticism? This volume attempts to offer some answers to this question. The first of its three sections serves as an extended introduction...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042012528
• ISBN13: 9789042012523
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Brill/Rodopi
• Length: 262 Pages