alteritism

== English == === Etymology === Coined by Sara Suleri Goodyear, from alterity +‎ -ism === Noun === alteritism (uncountable) An approach in postcolonial literary criticism that seeks to bypass orientalist or Eurocentric perspectives but, in foregrounding otherness, reproduces colonial ideas of the exotic. 1994/1995 Amina Jamal, "Identity, Community and the Post-colonial Experience of Migrancy", Resources for Feminist Research, vol. 23, no. 4. Suleri, for instance, points to the danger of conceptualizing alteritism, as colonial discourse has done and continues to do, in a manner where difference is reified and otherness becomes "simply a conceptual vessel for the anxiety that overtakes quests for origins" ...