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DIGITHUM 2008
On Monkeys and Japanese: Mimicry and Anastrophe in Orientalist RepresentationKeywords: Planet of the Apes , Japan , Orientalism , animalisation , colonial mimesis , cultural paradox , inverse civilisation Abstract: A number of lines of work are presented from a current project into the implications of Orientalism in the stereotypical representation of Japan through the analysis of the discourses of the paradox and inverse civilisation, and the consideration of the animalisation strategies of the Other in the travel literature of Pierre Loti and the fiction of Pierre Boulle.
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