Cross-Cultural Encounters through a Lateral Gaze

Joshua Paul Dale

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Cross-Cultural Encounters through a Lateral Gaze

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Pages:: 63–79

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004333468_005

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Cross-Cultural Encounters through a Lateral Gaze

This article offers a Lacanian analysis of the gaze as it operates cross-culturally in order to propose a new model – a lateral gaze – as an ethical basis for encounters with the other. Beneath the liberal humanism that informs Said’s Orientalism lie innovative insights into the underlying mechanism of the subject’s encounter with radical alterity. I explore these in relation to Roland Barthes’s Empire of Signs. Though Barthes presents Japan as a purely imaginary construction, my analysis locates in his text the building blocks of a symbolic complicity with the other that, by granting agency and subjectivity to both sides of the cross-cultural encounter, may initiate a proper ethics of alterity.

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After Orientalism

Critical Entanglements, Productive Looks

Series: Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race Online, Volume: 10 and Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race, Volume: 10

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004333468

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2003

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
  - Postcolonial Literature & Culture
- Social Sciences
  - Cultural Studies

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