Includes bibliographical references and index.

Isabel SANTAOLALLA: Introduction. -- PART I: Kateryna OLIJNYK LONGLEY: Fabricating Otherness: Demidenko and Exoticism. Ron SHAPIRO: In Defence of Exoticism: Rescuing the Literary Imagination. Ovidi CARBONELL: Exoticism in Translation: Writing, Representation, and the Postcolonial Context. Else R. P. VIEIRA: Ex-otic-isms on Location: Re-Situating the Offshore. Satendra NANDAN: The Other Side of Paradise: From Erotica to Exotica to Exile. PART II: Graham HUGGAN: Exoticism, Ethnicity, and the Multicultural Fallacy. Martin ROBERTS: Transnational Geographic: Perspectives on Baraka. Chris PERRIAM: Queer Borders: Derek Jarman, The Garden . Bernard MCGUIRK: London Black And/Or White: My Beautiful Laundrette . Richard DYER: Whites are Nothing: Whiteness, Representation and Death. Peter W. EVANS: From Maria Montez to Jasmine: Hollywood's Oriental Odalisques. Isabel SANTAOLALLA: Three Colours, White, Black, and . Italian. PART III: Juan A. SUÁREZ: Exotica in Cyberspace: The Geographies of Hybridity in William Gibson's Neuromancer. Beatriz PENAS IBÁÑEZ/José Ángel GARCÍA LANDA: Intertextuality and Exoticism in Salman Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh . Francisco Collado RODRÍGUEZ: Facing the Other: Bharati Mukherjee's Healer of the World. Aitor IBARROLA ARMENDARIZ: Hybrid Identities: New Forms of Autobiography in Ethnic American Literature. Nieves PASCUAL SOLER: Autobiographies in La Frontera: Gloria Alzandua. Ma. Pilar SÁNCHEZ CALLE: Home as an Exotic and Real Place in Zami: A New Spelling of my Name , by Audre Lorde.

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 to the concept and practice of exoticism, considering the phenomenon from a number of theoretical and critical positions, explicitly examining -sometimes via significant examples- the particular attributes of exoticism. The second and third sections are more strictly text-based, relying on the analysis of specific instances of film in the former and literature in the latter, in order to tease out some specific uses of the exotic -whether ethnic, gendered, sexual or other. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students working in the fields of representation, cultural theory, postcolonialism, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, cinema and literature.

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