Down there and up here : Orientalism and othering in feature stories / Elisabeth Eide
- Author:
- Eide, Elisabeth, 1950-
- Published:
- New York : Hampton Press, [2011]
- Copyright Date:
- ©2011
- Physical Description:
- x, 328 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Orientalism and Othering: Representation and Relations -- A Beginning -- `The West' -- Orientalism and Critical Awareness -- Who Is Allowed to Represent? -- Others and Othering -- Particularism (Parochialism) and Universalism Revisited -- Challenges to Representation -- Endnotes -- 2.Approaches to Textual Othering: A House With Four Rooms -- A Multidisciplinary Approach -- Discourse, Social Practice, and Power -- Four Rooms -- Who Speaks, Sees and Acts? And From Where? -- Different Reading Levels -- Four Rooms --- With Open Doors -- Interviews and Interviewees -- The Writer's Self -- Endnotes -- 3.India Seen From Elsewhere The India Constructed in A-magasinet -- Why India? -- Swedish Travel Books -- A-magasinet -- The Analysis -- Level 1 Empire, Crisis, Distress, and Spirituality -- Level 2 Othering Processes -- Level 3 The Feature Stories -- Level 4 Who Are Allowed to Speak? Of What? -- Seeing the Other and Being Seen -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- 4.Discourses on Europe's `Internal Others': Ethnic Minority Representation in Feature Stories -- Here, There, and Elsewhere -- The Long Distance Genre -- The Stories -- Two Special Dilemmas -- Endnotes -- 5.Colonial Explorers Looking for Difference? The Voices of the Reporters -- Reporter Repertoire -- Reporter Profiles -- From Nice to Nasty? A Shift of Focus -- Preservation and Integration -- Inside and Outside the `West' -- Endnotes -- 6.Who Will Be Internationalized? Toward a More Reflexive Journalism? -- New Readings -- Reportage and Survival -- Endnotes.
- Subject(s):
- ISBN:
- 9781572738607 (hardbound)
157273860X (hardbound)
9781572738614 (paperbound)
1572738618 (paperbound) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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