This paper questions the extent to which current critical engagements with postcolonial realities may exhibit an exoticising tendency they simultaneously decry as colonialism’s orientalist reflex. Contemporary instances of the exoticization of the “other”, however, are not necessarily the result of a practice of cultural translation that becomes ‘the superimposition of a dominant way of seeing,...

Victoria Cook, in "Exploring Transnational Identities in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost," addresses issues of identity raised in the narrative of Michael Ondaatje's novel Anil's Ghost. Cook's paper is a close analysis of Ondaatje's novel, paying particular attention to the way in which Ondaatje examines identity as both a "construct" and a "process." The approach used is one that draws on postcolonial...

Arab women bear the struggle of their local tradition in countries and Westerns when they live between them. They are victims gender discrimination racism. Ethnocentrism is inclination people who consider customs, civilizations, culture, skin, colour superior, demanding others to follow imitate This paper examined influence ethnocentrism on Arabian Western by analysing Fadia Faqir’s The Cry Dov...