alteritism
The English word “alteritism” has 1 meaning listed here.
noun
- An approach in postcolonial literary criticism that seeks to bypass orientalist or Eurocentric perspectives but, in foregrounding otherness, reproduces colonial ideas of the exotic.
Etymology
Coined by Sara Suleri Goodyear, from alterity + -ism
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