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The new cartographies of re-Orientalism

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posted on 2023-06-07, 23:28 authored by Minoli Salgado
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 reorientation 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.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Journal of Commonwealth Literature

ISSN

0021-9894

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Issue

2

Volume

46

Page range

199-218

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  • English Publications

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Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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