Word: exoticism
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As in his first short-story collection, Arresting God in Kathmandu, religious themes are everywhere in The Royal Ghosts. Through them Upadhyay reveals the universal in the apparently exotic. In The Weight of a Gun, a mother of a mentally ill son consults a clairvoyant believed to be possessed by...
Leoncio Barrios, a professor of social psychology at the Central University of Venezuela, says the country is an exotic attraction for left-leaning foreigners because it says it is adopting socialism as a model for the 21st century. Even vendors are capitalizing on the influx of political tourists. They sell...
With this growing presence comes perhaps Aboriginal art's greatest gift to the world. As with the stars on Gulumbu Yunupingu's ceiling, it is no longer a sign of exotic otherness, but something that can unite everyone under the one roof. "Sometimes we make a fire," says Yunupingu. "We...
The report is the latest development in an unfolding story that has seen two members of the lacrosse team indicted on rape charges, stemming from a party held on March 13 in which members of the team hired two exotic dancers to perform and in which one of the women...
By MARY A. BRAZELTONCrimson Staff WriterThere were riots in the streets of Dublin when John Millington Synge’s provocative “The Playboy of the Western World” was first produced in Ireland in 1907. Running until May 6, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) production...