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The new cartographies of re-Orientalism
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posted on 2023-06-07, 23:28 authored by Minoli SalgadoThis 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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Journal of Commonwealth LiteratureISSN
0021-9894Publisher
SAGE PublicationsExternal DOI
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2Volume
46Page range
199-218Department affiliated with
- English Publications
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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