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All civilisations have both feared and been fascinated by what lies beyond their limits, and have to a greater or lesser extent construed their “others” as
Tattoos in American Visual Culture
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In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive photographs, the book shows how images of tattooed bodies communicate and disrupt notions of g
A Female Poetics of Empire
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Many well-known male writers produced fictions about colonial spaces and discussed the advantages of realism over romance, and vice versa, in the ‘art of fict
Travel in Twentieth-Century French and Francophone Cultures
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This book is one of the first studies of twentieth-century travel literature in French, tracking the form from the colonial past to the postcolonial present. Wh
Extreme Exoticism
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To what extent can music be employed to shape one culture's understanding of another? In the American imagination, Japan has represented the "most alien" nation