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1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Thamyris intersecting ; no. 15
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Thamyris intersecting ; no. 15.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the shock of the other / Esther Peeren and Silke Horstkotte. I. Bodily alterities -- between matter and specter. The impossibly intersubjective and the logic of the both / Peter Hitchcock -- What was postmodernism? or, The last of the angels / Brian McHale -- The grotesque body: fleshing out the subject / Sara Cohen Shabot -- Auto-identities: avatar identities in the digital age / Kate Khatib -- Vocal alterities: voice-over, voice-off and the cultural addressee / Esther Peeren. II. Psychic alterities -- traumatic encounters. Eros and extimeté: viewing the pornographic self in Bataille, Cixous and Houellebecq / Victoria Best -- Choreography and trauma in Pina Bausch's Bluebeard -- while lestening to a taped recording of Béla Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" / Lucia Ruprecht -- Art that matters: identity politics and the event of viewing / Kate MacNeill -- Shame in alterities: Adrian Piper, intersubjectivity, and racial formation of identity / Alexis Shotwell. III. Negotiating alterities -- spaces of translation. A language of one's own?: Linguistic under-representation in the Kashmir Valley / Ananya Kabir -- Transgenerational meditations of identity in Rachel Seiffert's The dark room and Marcel Beyer's Spies / Silke Horstkotte -- The Braultian path to the other: estrangement and nontranslation / Nicole Côté -- Mapping cultural space in contemporary Northern Irish poetry / Ingo Berensmeyer. |
| Summary |
Alterity is not a mere synonym of difference; what it signifies is otherness, a distinction or separation that can entail similarity as well as difference. The articles collected here explore ways to define, situate and negotiate alterity in a manner that does not do away with the other through negation or neutralization but that instead engages alterity as a reconfiguring of identities that keeps them open to change, to a becoming without horizon. Alterity and its situated negotiations with identity are configured through the body, through the psyche and through translational politics. From c. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Other (Philosophy)
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Other (Philosophy) |
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Representation (Philosophy)
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Representation (Philosophy) |
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Electronic books.
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Horstkotte, Silke.
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Peeren, Esther.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Shock of the other. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2007 9789042021990 9042021993 (OCoLC)124889220 |
| ISBN |
9781435602496 (electronic book) |
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1435602498 (electronic book) |
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9042021993 |
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9789042021990 |
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9789042021990 (paperback) |
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9042021993 (paperback) |
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