Overview: Revisits the concepts of Orientalism and Occidentalism using a postmodern, deconstructivist approach.Exemplifies the culturalist, essentialist discourse used in education, literature and the arts.Equi.This volume revisits the notions of Orientalism, Occidentalism and, to a certain extent, Reverse Orientalism/Occidentalism in the 21st century, adopting post-modern, constructionist and potentially non-essentialising approaches. The representations of the ‘cultural Other’ in education, literature and the arts are examined by scholars working in Australia, France, Hong Kong, Japan, Malay
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