On Monkeys and Japanese: Mimicry and Anastrophe in Orientalist Representation

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.