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Title Negotiating identities : constructed selves and others / edited by Helen Vella Bonavita.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 217 pages).
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Series At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 77
At the interface/probing the boundaries. Diversity and recognition
At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 77.
At the interface/probing the boundaries. Diversity and recognition.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Tourism, Self-Representation and National Identity in Post-Socialist Hungary; Black Magic Women: On the Purported Use of Sorcery by Female Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore; Staying True to England: Representing Patriotism in Sixteenth-Century Drama; How Australian Muslims Construct Western Fear of the Muslim Other; Fatwa and Foreign Policy: New Models of Citizenship in an Emerging Age of Globalisation; Choosing to Be a Stranger: Romanian Intellectuals in Exile.
Infinite Responsibility for the Other in Emmanuel Levinas and Anne Michaels' Fugitive PiecesThe Breaking Asunder of Fanny Kemble: Trauma and the Discourse of Hygiene in Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839; Ancient Egypt as Europe's 'Intimate Stranger'; Fictions of a Creole Nation: (Re)Presenting Portugal's Imperial Past.
Summary "The papers within this volume articulate the challenges perceived by an individual or a country when its sense of self is confronted by the foreign, the threatening. Migration, exile, and invasion all challenge the individual or the nation to redefine itself and thereby write and rewrite the concept of personal and national identity. This interdisciplinary collection of papers, published for the first time, provide a stimulating and varied set of insights into the ongoing conversation that maps identity"--Page 4 of cover.
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Subject Identity (Psychology)
Identity (Psychology)
Other (Philosophy)
Other (Philosophy)
Social integration.
Social integration.
Group identity.
Group identity.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects.
Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects.
Nationalism -- Social aspects.
Nationalism -- Social aspects.
Nationalism.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Vella Bonavita, Helen.
Other Form: Print version: Negotiating identities. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011 9789042034006 (OCoLC)764302588
ISBN 9789401206877 (electronic book)
9401206872 (electronic book)