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Alternative Orientalisms in Latin America and Beyond
Contributor(s): Lă3pez-Calvo Ignacio (Editor)

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 ISBN: 1847181430     ISBN-13: 9781847181435
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
OUR PRICE: $71.35  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: April 2007
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Hispanic American Studies
Dewey: 303.482
LCCN: 2007702214
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" L (1.40 lbs) 360 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic
Features: Bibliography
 
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Orientalism is widely known as the study of Eastern cultures by Western intellectuals. Yet most people would associate this term with scholars from France, England, Germany, and the United States. This book presents, along with new essays dealing with the United States, the Islamic world and the Far East, alternative views on Orientalism, this time also coming from Latin America and other regions. While still dealing, in some cases, with interpretations of the East by Western outsiders, the fact that the cultural production analyzed (as well as many of the critics) comes from an area, Latin America, that has also been affected by European and U.S. imperialism and colonialism brings new light to the traditionally negative connotations ascribed to the term. These essays reveal that, though prejudice and racism are still prevalent in many Orientalist aesthetic practices coming from Latin America and other world regions, the perspective can also be radically different. From this perspective, rather than constructing the Orient as the West's alien and inferior other, the mirror image that appears in this book constitutes an attempt at understanding the Asian within us (within the Western world). The postcolonial approach of many of these essays is the theoretical framework that prevents (or, at least, tries to prevent) paternalistic or hegemonic representations of the Asian subject. As a result, the emphasis is often placed on transculturation, hybridity, liminality, double consciousness, and cultural identity.
 
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