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Essay on Exoticism
An Aesthetics of Diversity
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Victor Segalen
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Edited by:
Stanley Fish
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With contributions by:
Harry Harootunian
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Translated by:
Yael Rachel Schlick
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English
Published/Copyright:
2002
About this book
A series of notes on alterity written by Victor Segalen between 1904 and 1918, and here translated into English for the first time, anticipates the post-colonial critique of colonial theory.
Author / Editor information
Victor Segalen (1878–1919) was a French poet, novelist, archaeologist, and cultural analyst. Yaël Rachel Schlick is Adjunct Professor of English at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.
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“At a time when the moral battles for the ‘other’ have been waged, when the constructedness of identities has been demonstrated in extenso, it comes as a refreshing surprise to see Segalen struggle with the terminology of otherness and difference in the context of the term exoticism. His ruminations represent a fascinating and important intervention in present theoretical debates. For too long Segalen has been a secret among the initiate few; the time for broadcasting his ideas more widely is overdue.”—Andreas Michel, Indiana University
“It is exciting to see Segalen’s most comprehensive and influential theoretical text translated into English, particularly given its growing impact on colonial/postcolonial studies.”—Chris Bongie, College of William and Mary
“Essays on Exoticism is a most peculiar document. It was never finished, and never meant to be. . . . It is almost always interesting, because Segalen is interesting, and because he was trying to come to grips with something that still preoccupies many of us more than ever."
-- Ian Buruma New York Review of Books
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January 3, 2002
eBook ISBN:
9780822383727
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