{"product_id":"essay-on-exoticism-victor-segalen-9780822328223","title":"Essay on Exoticism: An Aesthetics of Diversity","description":"The \"Other\"-source of fear and fascination; emblem of difference demonized and romanticized. Theories of alterity and cultural diversity abound in the contemporary academic landscape. Victor Segalen's early attempt to theorize the exotic is a crucial reference point for all discussions of alterity, diversity, and ethnicity.\u003cbr\u003eWritten over the course of fourteen years between 1904 and 1918, at the height of the age of imperialism, \u003ci\u003eEssay on Exoticism\u003c\/i\u003e encompasses Segalen's attempts to define \"true Exoticism.\" This concept, he hoped, would not only replace nineteenth-century notions of exoticism that he considered tawdry and romantic, but also redirect his contemporaries' propensity to reduce the exotic to the \"colonial.\" His critique envisions a mechanism that appreciates cultural difference-which it posits as an aesthetic and ontological value-rather than assimilating it: \"Exoticism's power is nothing other than the ability to conceive otherwise,\" he writes.\u003cbr\u003eSegalen's pioneering work on otherness anticipates and informs much of the current postcolonial critique of colonial discourse. As such \u003ci\u003eEssay on Exoticism\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for both cultural theorists or those with an interest in the politics of difference and diversity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victor Segalen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0822328224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822328223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 5.40w x 0.36d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2002 pg. 42","brand":"Victor Segalen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947348459775,"sku":"9780822328223","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_653a2541-a361-4044-9d83-358bee55ebf7.jpg?v=1681518191","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/essay-on-exoticism-victor-segalen-9780822328223","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}