Intercultural Masquerade New Orientalism, New Occidentalism, Old Exoticism /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Machart, Regis (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Dervin, Fred (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Gao, Minghui (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2016.
• Σειρά: Encounters between East and West, Intercultural Perspectives,
• Θέματα: Education.; Language and education.; Linguistic anthropology.; Cultural studies.; Language Education.; Linguistic Anthropology.; Cultural Studies.

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 an...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Introduction: Dis-Orient to Re-Orient Ourselves?
• 1- Reconceptualising the ‘Other’ in Australian universities
• 2- Encountering ‘the West’ through academic mobility: Shifting representations and reinforced stereotypes
• 3- The PRC “foreign talent” scholars and their Singaporean “Other”: Neo-Occidentalism amidst intercultural contact in the context of higher education student mobility
• 4- French media critics of Asian education: A systematic quest for the cultural Other
• 5- Crate-Digging Columbuses and Vinyl Vespuccis – Exoticism in world music vinyl collections
• 6- East Blurs West: Global Crusaders in Amin Maalouf’s L’Amour de loin
• 7- Using Diaspora: Orientalism, Japanese nationalism, and the Japanese Brazilian diaspora
• 8- The rise of the Chinese villain:Demonic representation of the Asian character in popular literature (1880-1950)
• 9- Writing ambivalence: Visions of the West in Republican and Post-Maoist Chinese literature
• About the authors.