Concept of the Foreign

An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Herausgeber: Saunders, Rebecca

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing out literal and metaphorical meanings of 'foreignness' this wide-ranging volume offers much to scholars of postcolonial, gender, and cultural studies seeking new approaches to the study of alterity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. November 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9780739104095
• ISBN-10: 0739104098
• Artikelnr.: 21922164

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Saunders is an associate professor in the Department of English at Illinois State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Theoretical Dialogue
Chapter 2 Instability and Discipline(s)
Chapter 3 Belonging, Distance
Chapter 4 The Pathologized, the Improper, and the Impure
Chapter 5 The Present: Temporality and Materiality
Part 6 Local Manifestations
Chapter 7 The Exile of Anthropology
Chapter 8 Foreign Bodies: Engendering Them and Us
Chapter 9 Expedition into the Zone of Error: Of Literal and Literary
Foreignness and J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians
Chapter 10 Encountering Alien Otherness
Chapter 11 Xenotropism: Expatriatism in Theories of Depth Psychology and
Artistic Vocation
Chapter 12 War to the Death: Nativism and Independence in Latin America
Chapter 13 Changing Images and Similar Dynamics: Historical Patterning of
Foreignness in the Social Work Profession

Rezensionen

The idea of collecting a number of essays from specialists in various disciplines addressing the question of the foreign is a highly original one, and has resulted in an impressively varied and wide-ranging volume... Many attempts at interdisciplinary collections fail to achieve this kind of cohesiveness combined with variety, and the editor is to be congratulated on her successful meeting of this challenge...The book is genuinely original and genuinely interdiscipinary. -- Derek Attridge, The University of York, UK