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Such awareness lends a subtle metafictional framework to the novel, a hint of cautionary skepticism about its releases into fantasy and brushes with exoticism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
Cady, the protagonist of “Mean Girls,” was raised and homeschooled in Africa, lending her a whiff of exoticism compared to most of the student body at North Shore High School.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2024
Couto’s writing, critics said, was the linguistic exoticism of a Portuguese writer with no lived experience of the characters he imagined.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
But charges of cultural appropriation were leveled by critics who felt the spectacle of exoticism de-historicized sacred myths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2022
They weren't rich, but what Hugh's family lacked financially they more than made up for with the sort of exoticism that works wonders at cocktail parties, leading always to the remark "That sounds fascinating."
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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