Chapter 19. Turning the exotic into the familiar

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Series editor’s preface xi
4. Acknowledgements xiii
5. Contributors xv
6. Introduction 1
7. Foreword 9
8. Part I. Traversing unfamiliar spaces
9. Chapter 1. Magical modernities 17
10. Chapter 2. Kipling’s “wild and strange” India 35
11. Chapter 3. Exoticism and familiarity in Victor Segalen’s travel poetry 51
12. Chapter 4. Cambodia through Western eyes 67
13. Chapter 5. Italian travel narratives on twentieth century China 79
14. Chapter 6. Affect labelling as a means of challenging exotic stereotypes in readings of Salwa Bakr’s “The Golden Chariot” 95
15. Chapter 7. Exoticization of Russia and the Russian people in Polish literature 109
16. Part II. Mediating local voices
17. Chapter 8. The power and powerlessness of the exotic status 127
18. Chapter 9. Challenging taxonomies of the “local” and the “exotic” 139
19. Chapter 10. Overturning the familiar and the exotic 155
20. Chapter 11. Translation as the interplay of the familiar and the exotic in A. K. Ramanujan’s Poems of Love and War 173
21. Chapter 12. The exotic and the familiar and translation 189
22. Chapter 13. A play of the familiar and the exotic through the lens of Madhwacharya’s Bhasha theory 197
23. Chapter 14. Exoticizing 1984 213
24. Part III. Transcending familiar boundaries
25. Chapter 15. André Brink’s A Dry White Season as film 227
26. Chapter 16. No tiger in the tale 241
27. Chapter 17. From exotic to domestic 253
28. Chapter 18. V. S. Naipaul and Jhumpa Lahiri 265
29. Chapter 19. Turning the exotic into the familiar 281
30. Chapter 20. Coloured exoticism in Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child 1 295
31. Chapter 21. Exotic madness in Caribbean literature 309
32. Chapter 22. Plant/woman encounters in contemporary fairy-tale adaptations 323
33. Bibliography 337
34. Author index 357
35. General index 361