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1969 ELH 36 748 Robert further exoticizes his paradise setting with sprayed perfume.

1986 W. Sollors Beyond Ethnicity 10 When we turn to literary criticism devoted to ethnic literature, we encounter a different weakness. Sociologists may often overestimate and even exoticize literature.

1995 New Scientist 9 Sept. 41/2 The days in which anthropology consisted of travelling to faraway places exoticising difference and coming back to talk of ‘what the natives do’ are over.

2001 Wire June 10/3 Creating an arena that uses female musicians as the primary organising category..may..contribute to the problem of women musicians being exoticised and marginalised because of their gender.

1982 E. H. Kim Asian Amer. Lit. iv. 91 The exoticized depiction of Chinatown life presented in Wong Fifth Chinese Daughter present only a partial picture of community life.

1999 Jrnl. Consumer Res. 26 218 The voyeuristic consumption of the exoticized native other and native cultures was further generalized..through popular cultural representations.

1979 French Rev. 52 493 A danger that the very life substance or biography..will, thanks to the exoticizing effect of time, become the stuff of legends.

1988 Cultural Anthropol. 3 41 The second tendency involves exoticizing, by making differences between ‘self’ and other the sole criteria for comparison.

2003 New Yorker 1 Sept. 129/1 He understands better than his exoticizing European predecessors..that the so-called ‘Spanish sound’ is a fiendishly complex blend of European, Arabic, and Hebraic influences.