Search
Search Results
-
Internationalization and Post-Orientalism: The Evolution of the Guochao of Contemporary Chinese Video Games
The development of Chinese video games since the 1980s has been a turbulent and continuous guochao, or “national chic.” Chinese players’ demands for...
-
Race, Occidentalism/Orientalism and Sino-centrism in Contemporary Chinese Theatre
Building on Chen **aomei’s Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China and Claire Conceison’s Significant Other: Staging the...
-
Orientalism Expanded? Latin American Travel Narratives Heading East
Bolaño’s enthusiastic sentence “Leave it all behind, again. Go out on the roads” (Déjenlo todo, nuevamente. Láncense a los caminos) appeared in the...
-
“I AM NOT A VIRUS”: COVID-19, Anti-Asian Hate, and Comics as Counternarratives
Ever since the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, East Asians across the globe have been ostracized, othered, pathologized, and...
-
Islam and Far-Right Politics in Post-contemporary Francophone Speculative Fiction: An Ethical Call to Resistance or Revival of French Orientalism?
France’s literary landscape has been dominated in the last years by novels mirroring the country’s current political situation and party leaders’...
-
Most Colonial Architecture: Oriental Architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina Along the Border Between National Discourses
The main purpose of this research is to establish a clearer presentation of the meaning of the Orientalist expression in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with...
-
Kismet: Hollywood, Orientalism and the Design Language of Padraic Colum’s Mogu of the Desert
The lure of the exotic ‘other’ was implicit from the early years of the Gate’s repertoire. In 1931 the Gate produced Padraic Colum’s Mogu of the...
-
Interculturalism and Migration in Performance: From Distant Otherness to the Precarity of Proximity
This essay will examine how postmodern ‘interculturalism’ that emerged in the 1970s was firmly rooted in the binarism of late-orientalism, exposing...
-
The West/Rest Pirouette: Division in the Dance Canon
The dance landscape may be broadly divided into Western and non-Western genres. This chapter explores concepts underpinning the preference for...
-
Playful Yellowness: Rescuing Interculturalism from Millennial Orientalism
This chapter investigates performing “yellowness” in a playful but sincere way, as a recent trend of portraying Asianness and presenting Asian bodies...
-
Argentinean Literary Orientalism From Esteban Echeverría to Roberto Arlt
This book examines the modes of representation of the East in Argentinean literature since the country’s independence, in works by canonical authors...
-
Kolo Artistic Director Olga Skovran Stages the Serbian Folk
I look at Serbian history and the development of the Serbian peasant, and Serbian folk music and dance through the lens of Balkanism, a concept that...
-
Introduction
By moving away from political and politicized Islam in order to explore alternative narratives on Islam and Muslims, the introduction presents the...
-
The Cabinet of Orientalisms
The visual wonders of Strawberry Hill and Fonthill Abbey represent a dynamic aesthetic model of oriental and gothic features that diffused like...
-
General Conclusion
Though a late comer, Argentinean Orientalism is a subset of the European model in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Specialists like Hernán...
-
The New King of Comedy: Theodore Shapiro and the New Millennial Comedy Score
Theodore Shapiro (b. 1971) is one of the most prolific and successful composers of music for comedies during the first decades of the new millennium....
-
“Which Egypt Will Answer”?
In this article, I discuss several situations that historically influenced the formation of the notion of world heritage, beginning with the French...
-
“Othering” of Muslim Woman in Western Theory and Representation
This chapter aims to challenge mainstream Western and post-colonial discourse on Muslim women's representation and their relation to dress and...
-
Travel Writing and its Re-Imagining Within History and Creative Ethnography
This chapter examines how travel writing has been influential in the past re-thinking of the ethnography and history disciplines. Through a more open...
-
Which East by Way of the South?
This study analyzes a seemingly marginal subject within Argentinean literature: Orientalism, the attraction for the East—its cultures and exotic...