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- Title
EXOTICISM AND THE OPENINGS OF LITERATURE. TYPES OF EXOTICISMS.
- Authors
MIHEȚ, MARIUS
- Abstract
Exoticism cannot be reduced to its hues, indeed to its nuances. It taps into the endless dimension of passions and of literary imaginary. Exoticism is a natural state of the human being. But it is a state that goes beyond curiosity. Exoticism presupposes the act of knowing, not just knowing externally, but also knowing through creating an interior platform. Exoticism is a vehicle for knowing, maybe the most user-friendly, maybe the most seducing of all. It requires a simple participation, but, at the same time, a totalizing participation of the human being. Exoticism invites man to playing. Exoticism, through its invitation to playing, tends to re-signify or re-define man in contact with the object of exoticism. A condition of exoticism is to be able to surpass the real. We shall further attempt to draw the attention to different occurrences of exoticism in fiction. We have circumscribed these occurrences to ten types, exoticism as resistance (1), internal exoticism (2), imaginary exoticism (3), erotic exoticism (4), cultural exoticism (5), narcotic exoticism (6), political exoticism (7), commercial exoticism (8), identity-informed exoticism (9), entropic exoticism (10).
- Subjects
EXOTICISM in literature; HUMAN beings in literature; ROMANIAN literature; LITERARY criticism; EAST-West divide
- Publication
Annals of the University of Oradea, Romanian Language & Literature Fascicule / Analele Universităţii din Oradea. Seria Filologie, Fascicula Limba şi Literatura Română, 2014, Vol 21, p27
- ISSN
1224-7588
- Publication type
Article