Overview
- Revisits the concepts of Orientalism and Occidentalism using a postmodern, deconstructivist approach
- Exemplifies the culturalist, essentialist discourse used in education, literature and the arts
- Equips readers with approaches to deconstruct culturally oriented data
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Encounters between East and West (EEWIP)
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This volume revisits the notions of Orientalism, Occidentalism and, to a certain extent, Reverse Orientalism/Occidentalism in the 21st century, adopting post-modern, constructionist and potentially non-essentialising approaches. The representations of the ‘cultural Other’ in education, literature and the arts are examined by scholars working in Australia, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and the USA.
Vinyl compilations, TV series, novels, institutional discourses and surveys, amongst others, are examined so as to better understand how people construct their identity in relation to an imagined and idealised Other.
This book will appeal to all researchers and students interested in cultural identity and stereotypes of the ‘East’ and the ‘West’, in particular in the fields of academic mobility, cultural studies, intercultural education, postcolonial literature and media studies.
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Keywords
- Cultural Anthropology
- Cultural Essentialism
- Cultural Identity
- Cultural Stereotypes
- Intercultural Interactions
- Internationalisation of Higher Education
- Language and Culture
- Neo-Occidentalism
- Neo-Orientalism
- Othering
- Postcolonial literature
- Representation of Asia
- Revisiting Postcolonial Theory
- ‘East’ and ‘West’
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Intercultural Masquerade
Book Subtitle: New Orientalism, New Occidentalism, Old Exoticism
Editors: Regis Machart, Fred Dervin, Minghui Gao
Series Title: Encounters between East and West
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47056-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Higher Education Press 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-47055-8Published: 28 November 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51672-0Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-47056-5Published: 20 November 2015
Series ISSN: 2364-6721
Series E-ISSN: 2364-673X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 147
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education, Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Studies