Encounters with cultural difference: Cosmopolitanism and exoticism in Tanna (Martin Butler and Bentley Dean, 2015) and Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2015)

Encounters with cultural difference: Cosmopolitanism and exoticism in Tanna (Martin Butler and Bentley Dean, 2015) and Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra, 2015)

This essay aims to critically reassess and, ultimately, rehabilitate exoticism, understood as a particular mode of cultural representation and a highly contested discourse on cultural difference, by bringing it into dialogue with cosmopolitanism. It offers a theoretical exploration of exoticism and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Daniela Berghahn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University College Cork 2018-01-01
Series:Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
Subjects:
exoticism
cultural representation
cultural difference
cosmopolitanism
contact zone
autoethnography
authenticity
cultural translation
indigenous community
white supremacist
the other
colonial expansion
subjugation
subaltern
crosscultural dialogue
empowerment
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