A Ricochet of Desiring Gazes: Inter-racial Eroticism and the Modern Colonial Gender System
A Ricochet of Desiring Gazes: Inter-racial Eroticism and the Modern Colonial Gender System

Summary/Abstract: „The erotic overtones of otherness in its imperial-colonial racialized dimension have recently been in the center of attention of a number of scholars throughout the world (Yen Le Espiritu 1997, McClintock 1995, Hill Collins 1990). The so called “porno tropic tradition” of European travel literature (McClintock 1995) that was shaped in the first modernity in connection with the conquering of Americas has mutated since then into the erotic Orientalism of the second modernity, that has been thoroughly documented, particularly in relation to Anglophone and Francophone literatures. However, the principles of erotic exotization and demonization are different in various locales and literatures, the reason for which lies in the imperial-colonial difference1 and the way the modern colonial gender”[…]

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