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Journal of Central and Eastern European African StudiesThe aim of this article is to describe the evolution of the perception of Africa, especially the Sub-Saharan part, and its inhabitants in Poland between 1945 and 1989 on the basis of official documents, literary sources, and memoirs.
Błażej Popławski
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The Effects of Exotism on Romantic Period Operas and Symphonic Suites
Konservatoryum, 2021 As unknown lands were discovered in the 15th and 16th centuries because long-distance sea voyages became possible, Europe became increasingly interested in the exotic East. People in the West were attracted through the power of their imaginations to more
Zeynep Simge Acunaz Eytemiz
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Imagology in comparative literature : Knowing yourself from another perspective [PDF]
مطالعات بینرشتهای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانی, 2021 Imagology in Comparative Literature: Knowing the Self from the Other's Perspective Abstract: The present paper examines imagology in comparative literature. Imagology is one of the most important and rooted areas in comparative literature since it is
Hamideh Lotfinia
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M@ppemonde, 2021 The series Submerged Portraits by photographer Gideon Mendel portrays mostly powerless and passive inhabitants in a variety of flooded places across the globe. The photographer’s goal was to raise awareness concerning humanity’s generalised vulnerability
Alexis Metzger, Pauline Guinard
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Humaniora, 2023 This article explores the construction of neo-exoticism discourses in Indonesian online news media. Drawing on online news media research, we show how the transformation of ethnic cultures in Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia were positioned as the basis ...
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Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2018 This essay aims to critically reassess and, ultimately, rehabilitate exoticism, understood as a particular mode of cultural representation and a highly contested discourse on cultural difference, by bringing it into dialogue with cosmopolitanism.
Daniela Berghahn
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Current Musicology, 2009 Western artists, writers, and scholars have long used images to represent the exotic Other. In 1835, the French writer and poet Alphonse de Lamartine entitled his travelogue Souvenirs, impressions, pensees et paysages, pendant un voyage en Orient (1832 ...
Kristy Riggs
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Exoticism in Gertrude Bell's Persian pictures [PDF]
, 2014 Victorian travelers in colonial contexts encountered differences in landscape, mores and manners, society, politics and culture, among other things, and registered their responses to the places visited in their published travel books for the home ...
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El nuevo pasado mexicano: estrategias de representación en Atzimba de Ricardo Castro
Resonancias, 2014 Taking as a point of departure theories developed in the social sciences that suggest that nationalist movements engender nations, nationalist art is defined not as that which expresses the national essence, but rather as that which effectively ...
Leonora Saavedra
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Film music and construction of tourist imaginaries in Hollywood blockbusters
Via@, 2023 The various films of the two successful spy franchises, James Bond and Mission: Impossible, are distinguished not only by their lead actors (heroes and antagonists), but also by their geographical settings.
Marie-Hélène Chevrier, Chloé Huvet
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