Representing the Exotic and the Familiar

The multicultural world of today is often said to be marked by a certain kind of exoticization: a "e;fetishizing process"e;, as Graham Huggan has called it, which separates a "e;first world"e; from a "e;third world"e;, the Occident from the Orient. The essays collected here re-assess this tendency, not least by focusing on the kinds of intellectual tourism and dilettantism to which it has given ri...