From Cannibals to Radicals

From Cannibals to Radicals
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 328
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ISBN-10 : 0816626049
ISBN-13 : 9780816626045
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Download or read book From Cannibals to Radicals written by Roger Célestin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective to this study is, essentially, to arrive at a view of exoticism as a relation between (Western) Self and (exotic) Other that is fluctuatingly tenuous or strong depending on the narrating subject's position vis-a-vis a point of departure (and return) that I have alternately called Home, Center, and audience.


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