Word: exoticism
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Collecting music is not rare. Most people have a favorite band; they head over to Tower on the day the new CD comes out and own every album the group has ever released (including the double-live album with terrible sound quality, no new songs and lengthy periods of applause...
Pull back the saris on the cover of Bharati Mukherjee’s Desirable Daughters and enter an unknown world. The book is packaged like so many other novels by Indian and Indian-American authors. It masquerades as another example of literary “chutneyfication,” an...
Now, back to the cover. Mukherjee’s publisher seems to be drawing on the popularity of the exotic and on the willingness of the American public to shell out at even the suggestion of a curry-flavored tale. Assistant Professor of English and American Language and Literature Sharmila...
My sharpest worry is that national homogeneity continues to be Japan's modern religion. There are no degrees of citizenship here: if you are not "a Japanese" your gaijin status is hammered home at every encounter with officialdom, every gape from rural school kids and every well-meant compliment on...