Elizabeth Hallam / Brian Street (eds.)

Cultural Encounters

Representing Otherness
Herausgeber: Hallam, Elizabeth; Street, Brian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Contributors explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Sussex Studies in Culture and Communication
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 470g
• ISBN-13: 9780415202800
• ISBN-10: 0415202809
• Artikelnr.: 21085878

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Hallam is Director of Cultural History at the University of Aberdeen. Brian Street is Professor in the School of Education at King's College, London

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction 1. Muslims and European Identity: Can Europe Represent Islam?
2. The Hottentot Venus and the Western Man: Reflections on the Construction
of Beauty in the West 3. Orientalist Representations: Palestinians and
Arabs in some Post-colonial Film and Literature 4. Sandra Kogut's 'What do
you think people think Brazil is?' Rephrasing Identity 5. Imagi-nation: the
Media, Nation and Politics in Contemporary India 6. Projecting Africa. Two
British Travel Films of the 1920s 7. Museum Ethnography: an Imperial
Science 8. Reflections on the Fate of Tipoo's Tiger: Defining Cultures
through Public Display 9. Toward and Erotics of the Museum 10. History,
Otherness and Display 11. Texts, Objects and Otherness. Problems of
Historical Process in Writing and Displaying Cultures