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Transorientalism in Fashion, Art, and Film: Inventions of Identity

by Adam Geczy
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781350060142
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
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  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: GBP 95.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 522 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Fashion & Accessories, Criticism & Theory, and Popular Culture

Combining transnationalism and exoticism, transorientalism is the new orientalism of the age of globalization. With its roots in earlier times, it is a term that emphasizes alteration, mutation, and exchange between cultures.
While the familiar orientalisms persist, transorientalism is a term that covers notions like the adoption of a hat from a different country for Turkish nationalist dress, the fact that an Italian could be one of the most influential directors in recent Chinese cinema, that Muslim women artists explore Islamic womanhood in non-Islamic countries, that artists can embrace both indigenous and non-indigenous identity at the same time. This is more than nostalgia or bland nationalism. It is a reflection of the effect that communication and representation in recent decades have brought to the way in which national identity is crafted and constructed-yet this does not make it any less authentic. The diversity of race and culture, the manner in which they are expressed and transacted, are most evident in art, fashion, and film. This much-needed book offers a refreshing, informed, and incisive account of a paradigm shift in the ways in which identity and otherness is moulded, perceived, and portrayed.

Geczy, Adam: - Adam Geczy is an artist and writer. He is Senior Lecturer at Sydney College of the Arts, Australia, and author and co-author of numerous books including Reframing Art with Michael Carter (Berg, 2005), Art (Berg, 2008), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009, Queer Style with Vicki Karaminas (Bloomsbury, 2013), Fashionable Art with Jacqueline Millner (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Fashion's Double (Bloomsbury, 2015).

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