Alteritism

Noun

Word Frequency: 0.5

Definitions

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

Synonyms

orientalism postmodernism alternativism eclecticism anticritique avant-gardism ethnocentrism xenocentricism antiessentialism post-postmodernism antihistoricism reflectionism

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