alteritism
Meanings
noun
- 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
Etymology
Coined by Sara Suleri Goodyear, from alterity + -ism
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