ABSTRACT The marked reluctance to incorporate African agency in African image-making in the West quite predictably brought about flat and simplistic caricatures of the continent and its peoples. With the aim of interrogating continuity and change in the representation of Africa, this paper explores African exoticism in Travel Channel’s Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. Framed within a critical cultural/postcolonial perspective that anchors discourses of exoticism in Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, the study identifies the spectacular representational modes of the “crude” native, poverty, and primitivism as evidences of African otherness. Key findings of the study indicate that food in many African destinations is portrayed as mere materiality, and that African foodways are unsophisticated and lack any perceptible aesthetics or influence. Furthermore, the show stubbornly insists on Africa’s “primitiveness” as a binary condition to be contrasted with Western modernity, which, like the spectacle of poverty, marks the salience of African alterity.

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Exotica Africana：与安德鲁齐默恩一起在奇异食品中审问非洲的差异性

摘要 可以预见的是，西方明显不愿意将非洲机构纳入非洲形象制作中，这导致了对非洲大陆及其人民的扁平化和简单化的漫画化。为了探究非洲表征的连续性和变化，本文与安德鲁·齐默恩 (Andrew Zimmern) 一起探讨了 Travel Channel 奇异食品中的非洲异国情调。该研究以批判性的文化/后殖民视角为框架，在与安德鲁齐默恩的《奇异食品》中锚定异国情调的话语，该研究将“原始”土著、贫困和原始主义的壮观表征模式确定为非洲差异性的证据。该研究的主要发现表明，许多非洲目的地的食物被描绘成纯粹的物质，而非洲的饮食方式并不复杂，缺乏任何可感知的美学或影响。