alteritism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An approach in postcolonial literary criticism that seeks to bypass orientalist or Eurocentric perspectives but, in foregrounding otherness, reproduces colonial ideas of the exotic.

Word forms

alteritism

Etymology

Coined by Sara Suleri Goodyear, from alterity + -ism

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