Middle Ground invites the submission of essays for a special issue on Exoticism / the Exotic in colonial and Postcolonial thought and literature. The undertheorization of Exoticism / the Exotic, in ...

Selling the Golden Leaf: Exoticism in Tobacco Advertising at Wolfsonian-FIU, installation view (all images courtesy the Wolfsonian-FIU unless indicated otherwise) MIAMI BEACH — That the culture of the ...

For the last two weekends, 38 white amateur performers in Seattle cinched up their obis and daubed on facepaint to perform The Mikado—standard fare for an operetta set on the fictional Japanese island ...

On May 17, I arrived at Doc Films to scratch out an end-of-year bucket list item: watch a movie on film. There, I saw West German director Ulrike Ottinger’s 1989 Johanna d’Arc of Mongolia. The film ...

I was in Copenhagen last week, revelling in the exoticism. Mouse-blond hair, sea-glass eyes; tall Vikings cycling along, with their fresh complexions and stubby boots. Wearing stripes and eating ...

Once a new friend asked me what kind of writing I did, and, tired of the “travel writer” label, I tried something different. “I’m an exoticist,” I told her. Regarding me with a grimace, she asked what ...

Best of all is Alia Sarah, who swivels her way through the scenery as Badarawuhi, an entity who is as sexual as she is unholy. She makes the Wicked Witch of the West look like Winnie the Pooh.

The Research Laboratory in Culture and Communication calls for articles for publication in the fourth issue of its Journal Middle Ground. The topic is Exoticism/the Exotic in colonial and postcolonial ...