The New Cartographies of Re-Orientalism

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ID9003448
AuthorsMinoli Salgado (0000-0001-7762-6472, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume46
Issue2
Pages199-218
Publication date2011-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-9894 • E-ISSN: 1741-6442
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0021989411404988
OpenAlexW2051691348
LanguageEN
Citations received6

This paper explores the concept of Re-Orientalism by evaluating contrasting uses of the term, examining their implications and revealing the way they mark ongoing contestations over cultural legitimacy and authority. I explore some of the connections between Re-Orientalism and Graham Huggan’s postcolonial exoticism and propose an inclusive working definition of Re-Orientalism that I put to the test in an evaluation of Michael Ondaatje’s Running in the Family and Christopher Ondaatje’s The Man-Eater of Punanai. I suggest that “Re-Orientalism” marks a re-orientation of discursive authorization symptomatic of deep anxieties over cultural legitimacy. At its most radical, I argue, such a re-orientation can prompt a profound revaluation of the position of the diasporic and national subject in ways that provoke productive dialogue between them; at its most reactionary, I suggest, it can work to deepen and entrench the differences generated by Orientalist discourse itself

Aesthetics · Art · Eurocentrism · Exoticism · Legitimacy · Literature · Orientalism · Political science · Politics · Reactionary · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · South Asian Cinema and Culture · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora

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