Exchanges In Exoticism

Author : Megan Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:883827845

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Annotation$$bCharting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered translation work, this study, which is grounded in the relations between the west and Byzantium, examines cross-cultural marriage as a medium of literary and cultural exchange, one in which womens work was equally important as mens. Moores readings of Old French and Medieval Greek texts reveal the extent to which women challenged the cultures into which they married and shaped their new courtly environments. Through the lens of medieval gender and postcolonial theory, Exchanges in Exoticism demonstrates how the process of cultural exchange - and empire building - extends well beyond our traditional assumptions about gender roles in the medieval Mediterranean.

Author : Megan Moore
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442644694

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Exchanges in Exoticism by Megan Moore Pdf

Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered translation work, this study, which is grounded in the relations between the west and Byzantium, examines cross-cultural marriage as a medium of literary and cultural exchange, one in which women's work was equally important as men's. Moore's readings of Old French and Medieval Greek texts reveal the extent to which women challenged the cultures into which they married and shaped their new courtly environments. Through the lens of medieval gender and postcolonial theory, Exchanges in Exoticism demonstrates how the process of cultural exchange – and empire building – extends well beyond our traditional assumptions about gender roles in the medieval Mediterranean.

Author : Benjamin Schmidt
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812290349

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Inventing Exoticism by Benjamin Schmidt Pdf

As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the extraordinary global images that emerged from this process form the subject of this highly original and richly textured study of cultural geography. Inventing Exoticism draws on a vast range of sources from history, literature, science, and art to describe the energetic and sustained international engagements that gave birth to our modern conceptions of exoticism and globalism. Illustrated with more than two hundred images of engravings, paintings, ceramics, and more, Inventing Exoticism shows, in vivid example and persuasive detail, how Europeans came to see and understand the world at an especially critical juncture of imperial imagination. At the turn to the eighteenth century, European markets were flooded by books and artifacts that described or otherwise evoked non-European realms: histories and ethnographies of overseas kingdoms, travel narratives and decorative maps, lavishly produced tomes illustrating foreign flora and fauna, and numerous decorative objects in the styles of distant cultures. Inventing Exoticism meticulously analyzes these, while further identifying the particular role of the Dutch—"Carryers of the World," as Defoe famously called them—in the business of exotica. The form of early modern exoticism that sold so well, as this book shows, originated not with expansion-minded imperialists of London and Paris, but in the canny ateliers of Holland. By scrutinizing these materials from the perspectives of both producers and consumers—and paying close attention to processes of cultural mediation—Inventing Exoticism interrogates traditional postcolonial theories of knowledge and power. It proposes a wholly revisionist understanding of geography in a pivotal age of expansion and offers a crucial historical perspective on our own global culture as it engages in a media-saturated world.

Author : Adam J. Goldwyn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319692036

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Byzantine Ecocriticism by Adam J. Goldwyn Pdf

Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance applies literary ecocriticism to the imaginative fiction of the Greek world from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. Through analyses of hunting, gardening, bride-stealing, and warfare, Byzantine Ecocriticism exposes the attitudes and behaviors that justified human control over women, nature, and animals; the means by which such control was exerted; and the anxieties surrounding its limits. Adam Goldwyn thus demonstrates the ways in which intersectional ecocriticism, feminism, and posthumanism can be applied to medieval texts, and illustrates how the legacies of medieval and Byzantine environmental practice and ideology continue to be relevant to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.

Author : Megan Moore
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442661370

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Exchanges in Exoticism by Megan Moore Pdf

Charting important new territory within medieval gender studies, Megan Moore explores the vital role that women played in transmitting knowledge and empire within Mediterranean cross-cultural marriages. Whereas cross-cultural exchange has typically been understood through the lens of male-centered translation work, this study, which is grounded in the relations between the west and Byzantium, examines cross-cultural marriage as a medium of literary and cultural exchange, one in which women's work was equally important as men’s. Moore's readings of Old French and Medieval Greek texts reveal the extent to which women challenged the cultures into which they married and shaped their new courtly environments. Through the lens of medieval gender and postcolonial theory, Exchanges in Exoticism demonstrates how the process of cultural exchange – and empire building – extends well beyond our traditional assumptions about gender roles in the medieval Mediterranean.

Author : Graham Huggan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134576975

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The Postcolonial Exotic by Graham Huggan Pdf

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 cultural field. Using varied methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run through postcolonial studies, and the means by which postcolonial products are marketed and domesticated for Western consumption. Global in scope, the book takes in everything from: * the latest 'Indo-chic' to the history of the Heinemann African Writers series * from the celebrity stakes of the Booker Prize to those of the US academic star-system *from Canadian multicultural anthologies to Australian 'tourist novels'. This timely and challenging volume points to the urgent need for a more carefully grounded understanding of the processes of production, dissemination and consumption that have surrounded the rapid development of the postcolonial field.

Author : Robert Muchembled,William Monter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521845496

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Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe by Robert Muchembled,William Monter Pdf

This 2007 volume reveals how a first European identity was forged from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Cultural exchange played a central role in the elites' fashioning of self. The cultures they exchanged and often integrated with included palaces, dresses and jewellery but also gestures and dances.

Author : Olivia Khoo
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9622098797

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The Chinese Exotic by Olivia Khoo Pdf

With great sensitivity and originality, Olivia Khoo shows us how to read popular films, female movie stars, quotidian cultural artifacts, novels, and other 'Chinese exotic'phenomena in contemporary global circulation."--Rey Chow, Brown UniversityOlivia Khoo is a lecturer in film studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Author : Atreyee Phukan,V.G. Julie Rajan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527561243

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South Asia and its Others by Atreyee Phukan,V.G. Julie Rajan Pdf

The essays in South Asia and Its Others: Reading the "Exotic" reveal fresh perspectives on the notion of exoticism in South Asia, and also challenge and extend existing scholarship in the broader discourse of what constitutes South Asia. Significantly, the anthology considers how the phenomenon of "exoticization" may be interpreted as a strategic methodology utilized by writers of South Asian descent to examine critically both the post-colonialist ramifications of casteism, religious intolerance, and gender violence across differing cultural contexts within the region, and how current perceptions of "native" and "diasporic" South Asian subjects problematize ideologies of authenticity across Western-Eastern divides. The papers in this collection show how authors of South Asian ethnicity construct their own version of an "exotic" South Asia globally and the colonialist discourse of "exocitism" is employed as a discursive tool that uncovers the ambiguity that continues to mark the marginality of identities even today.

Author : Paul van der Grijp
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art and anthropology
ISBN : 9783825816674

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Art and Exoticism by Paul van der Grijp Pdf

This book is about the yearning for authenticity via art and exoticism. Exoticism related to art cannot be reduced to primitivism alone and also encompasses a search in one's own unconsciousness among other things. The yearning for authenticity through exoticism is explored in a cultural anthropological perspective in the realms of Western philosophy (capita selecta) and colonial literature, currents of art, and in the appreciation of Western art conceptions in non-Western societies. An array of firsthand ethnographic illustrations of art production in Asian and Pacific societies demonstrates complementary processes in the non-Western world. A major hypothesis is that exoticism is closely related to, and often motivated by eroticism, a reason why exoticism should be considered as gendered. Case studies of the falsification of authentic art, the de-sacralization of sacred objects, and of the use of natural materials deriving from endangered species complete the analysis.

Author : Carolyn D. Dillian,Carolyn L. White
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441910721

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Trade and Exchange by Carolyn D. Dillian,Carolyn L. White Pdf

Long before the advent of the global economy, foreign goods were transported, traded, and exchanged through myriad means, over short and long distances. Archaeological tools for identifying foreign objects, such as provenance studies, stylistic analyses, and economic documentary sources reveal non-local materials in historic and prehistoric assemblages. Trade and exchange represent more than mere production and consumption. Exchange of goods also led to an exchange of cultural and social experiences. Discoveries of the sources of alien objects surpass archaeological expectations of exchange and geographic distance, revealing important technological advances. With thirteen case studies from around the world, this comprehensive work provides a fresh perspective on material culture studies. Evidence of ongoing negotiation between individuals, villages, and nations provides insight into the impact of trade on the micro-, meso-, and macro-level. Covering a wide array of time periods and areas, this work will be of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, and anyone working in cultural studies.

Author : Victor Segalen
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0822328224

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Essay on Exoticism by Victor Segalen Pdf

DIVA series of notes on alterity written by Victor Segalen between 1904 and 1918, and here translated into English for the first time, anticipates the post-colonial critique of colonial theory./div

Author : George Sebastian Rousseau,Roy Porter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : British
ISBN : 0719026776

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Exoticism in the Enlightenment by George Sebastian Rousseau,Roy Porter Pdf

Author : Lisa Heldke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317827757

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Exotic Appetites by Lisa Heldke Pdf

First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ayako Ono
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000877090

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Whistler and Artistic Exchange between Japan and the West by Ayako Ono Pdf

Ono examines cross-cultural artistic exchange between the West and Japan from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Studies of Japonisme have been dominated by searching out relationships of influence between artworks–trying to identify which specific works influenced a particular artist. Ono argues that a more holistic understanding of 'spillover effects' is necessary in fully comprehending the nuances of these relationships. She bases this argument on documents and works of art in the context of globalisation, looking at the relationships between James McNeill Whistler and others with their contemporaries in the Japanese artistic and literary worlds. This was a more complex two-way exchange than is often appreciated, with Western artists taking inspiration from (to them) new Japanese styles, while Japanese artists and writers were trying to craft a 'modern', more western-influences style to reflect the modern nation of Japan emerging onto the world stage after centuries of relative isolation. A fascinating analysis of the role of globalisation and cultural exchange in the development of new and hybrid artforms, that will be essential reading for scholars of this fascinating period in international art history.