Essay on Exoticism - An Aesthetics of Diversity

"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

List of contents

Foreword: The Exotics of Nowhere
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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chronology: Victor Segalen (1878–1919)

Essay on Exoticism

Notes
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Other Works by Victor Segalen Available in English
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Selected Critical Works on Victor Segalen in English

Index

About the author

Victor Segalen

Product details

• Authors: Victor Segalen
• Assisted by: Yael Rachel Schlick (Editor), Yael Rachel Schlick (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.01.2002
• EAN: 9780822328223
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2822-3
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 210 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 163 g
• Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Interventions / Latin America in Translation; Post-Contemporary Intervention; Post-Contemporary Interventions; Post-Contemporary Intervention
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Englisch, Kulturwissenschaften