The Shock of the Other
：Situating Alterities
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Publication subTitle ：Situating Alterities
Publication series ：1
Author： Horstkotte Silke;Peeren Esther
Publisher： Brill
Publication year： 2007
E-ISBN: 9789401204378
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789042021990
Subject： B017 epistemology
Keyword： 文学评论、文学欣赏,世界文学
Language： ENG
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Description
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 critical readings of angels, specters, grotesque bodies, online avatars, Sex and the City, pornography in French literature, Australian billboard art, Pina Bausch, Adrian Piper, Kashmiri poetry, contemporary German fiction, Jacques Brault and Northern-Irish poetry, there emerges a vision of identities as multi-faceted constructions that are continually being transformed by the various alterities with which they intersect and which they must actively engage in order to function effectively in the social, political, and aesthetic realm.
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