1. César Aira y el exotismo.
- Author
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Gutiérrez-Mouat, Ricardo
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EXOTICISM in literature , *CULTURE & globalization , *ETHNOLOGY & literature , *POETICS , *POSTCOLONIALISM , *UTOPIAS in literature - Abstract
The present paper analyses one of the less commonly studied aspects of the poetics of César Aira: exoticism, which in Aira stems from the unstable and paradoxical place proper of a post-modern writer from the Rio de la Plata facing traditional (and European) representations of exoticism in a period of cultural globalisation. The paper examines such a paradox and concludes that Aira's exoticism is manifest in the ethnographic simulation and in certain thoughts on the de-familiarisation of the mother tongue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2013