ABSTRACT
Cultural Encounters examines how 'otherness' has been constituted, communicated and transformed in cultural representation. Covering a diverse range of media including film, TV, advertisements, video, photographs, painting, novels, poetry, newspapers and material objects, the contributors, who include Ludmilla Jordanova and Ivan Karp, explore the cultural politics of Europe's encounters with Brazil, India, Israel, Australia and Africa, examining the ways in which visual and textual art forms operate in their treatment of cultural difference.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|10 pages
Introduction: Cultural encounters – representing ‘otherness'
Cultural encountersrepresenring 'otherness'
part 1|119 pages
Visualising 'otherness'
chapter 2|16 pages
The Hottentot Venus and Western Man
reflections on the construction of beauty in the West
chapter 3|21 pages
Orientalist representations
Palestinians and Arabs in some postcolonial film and literature
part 2|135 pages
Displaying cultures
chapter 8|35 pages
Reflections on the fate of Tippoo's Tiger
Defining cultures through public display
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chapter 11|24 pages
Texts, objects and ‘otherness'
Problems of historical process in writing and displaying cultures