The New Cartographies of Re-Orientalism  

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Salgado, Minoli

Jenis: Article from Article
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature vol. 46 no. 2 (Jun. 2011), page 199-218.
Topik: Re-Orientalism; exoticism; diaspora; authenticity; imperial romance; Michael Ondaatje; Christopher Ondaatje
Fulltext: The New Cartographies of Re-Orientalism.pdf (333.25KB)

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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.

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