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Photophages: Tourists, natives, and stylistic quirks in Georges Perec’s Tentative d’épuisement d’un lieu parisien

open access: yesFrancosphères, 2016
In October 1974, Georges Perec spent three days observing everyday life of the Place Saint-Sulpice in Paris’s 6th arrondissement. Examining the written trace of that experiment, Tentative d’épuisement d’un lieu parisien (1975), this article demonstrates ...
Livi Yoshioka-Maxwell
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Belly Dance: Orientalism—Exoticism—Self-Exoticism

open access: yesDance Research Journal, 2003
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been since antiquity a place of romance, exotic beings, haunting memories and landscapes, remarkable experiences. (Said 1978,1)The past century has witnessed the phenomenon of belly dancing becoming a key icon of the Middle East in the West. This iconic representation often causes outrage, resentment,
Anthony Shay, Barbara Sellers-Young
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Transatlantic spaces: production, location and style in 1960s-1970s action-adventure TV series [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper argues that transatlantic hybridity connects space, visual style and ideological point of view in British television action-adventure fiction of the 1960s–1970s.
Bignell, Jonathan
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L’altérité et le tourisme : construction du soi et d’une identité sociale

open access: yesEspace populations sociétés, 2009
This article examines one of the reasons why third world alterity is one of the motors of tourism. What do travelers seek when they visit those remote sites?
Anne-Marie d’Hauteserre
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Translating Difference: The Ambiguous Representation of the ‘Exotic’ in Wyndham Lewis’s Journey into Barbary: Travels across Morocco

open access: yesELOPE, 2021
Difference is dealt with paradoxically in discourse: sometimes, it is admired and eulogized by the perceiver to the extent of fetishism; other times, however, it represents a mixture of both love and repulsion.
Abderrazzak Oumoussa
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Southern-Netherlandish observations and knowledge production of naturalia on the seas : the writings of Michael de Febure (1721) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Just as was the case for other European sea voyages, maritime expeditions from the Southern-Netherlandish port of Ostend to Asia presented opportunities for the bringing of naturalia to Europe, and with it the production of knowledge on the natural world
De Winter, Wim
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Versions and visions of the Alhambra in the nineteenth-century Ottoman world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The Alhambra as a source of inspiration for Western architects in the nineteenth century is well known and has been thoroughly documented. But “Alhambresque” style was not just an Orientalist exoticism in the West.
McSweeney, Anna
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Exotic Norths? Representations of Northern Scandinavia in S. H. Kent's Within the Arctic Circle and Bayard Taylor's Northern Travel

open access: yesNordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2010
In this article I analyse aspects connected to exoticism in Bayard Taylor's Northern Travel (1858) and Susannah Henrietta Kent's Within the Arctic Circle (1877).
Maria Lindgren Leavenworth
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The Savage Decolonialist. Notes on Critical Exoticism

open access: yesCoSMO, 2012
Notes on Critical ...
Federico Luisetti
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The Law and Economics of Critical Race Theory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Legal academics often perceive law and economics (L&E) and critical race theory (CRT) as oppositional discourses. Using a recently published collection of essays on CRT as a starting point, we argue that the understanding of workplace discrimination ...
Carbado, Devon W., Gulati, Mitu
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