| Description |
280 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Susan Yi Sencindiver, Marie Lauritzen and Maria Beville -- Part I. Self and other : indelibly divided, irrevocably united -- Same, same but other : over-sameness as sexual otherness / Olu Jenzen -- Pregnant doppelgängers : lived and literary / Susan Yi Sencindiver -- Alterity and transcendence : from Dedalus the Dub to Hamlet the Dane / Steven Bond -- Part II. Hosting or ousting the other -- How can we meet the other? / Luce Irigaray -- In pursuit of alterity : the labyrinth in literature as other space / Maria Beville -- Non-human otherness : animals as others and devices for othering / Sune Borkfelt -- Secrets, betrayals and inexpressable otherness : art as problem-solver? / Ann McCulloch -- Difference, otherness and speeds of becoming in transcultural and migration literature and theory / Sten Pultz Moslund -- Part III. Socicultural aspects of otherness : glocal, transcultural and spectral mobile selves -- How to narrate the other / Svend Erik Larsen -- Re-fusing broken records : Caribbean Creolisation revisited / Maeve Tynan -- Living in an overheated world : otherness as a universal condition / Thomas Hylland Eriksen -- Mobile technology and the actuvirtual / artifactual subject / Eugene O Brien |
| Summary |
"In recent decades, theoretical and critical studies have oscillated between, on the one hand, wrestling otherness from a condition in which it is dependent on and defined relative to the notion of the same and, on the other hand, pursuing an approach to sameness and universality uncontaminated by otherness. Yet these concepts continuously prove mutually dependent. Together, they constitute a dynamic and productive tension which this book addresses. Inquiring into the representations and nature of self-other relationships in art, literature and culture, the chapters are written in and to a contemporary world struggling with the critical question of otherness and its present-day status. Given the complexity and multidimensional nature of otherness, a multilateral focus is called for and so this collection of selected essays brings together a range of scholarly disciplines and inquiries to engage in a multilateral discussion of otherness." -- book cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Other (Philosophy) in literature.
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Other (Philosophy) in art.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
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| Author |
Sencindiver, Susan Yi.
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Beville, Maria.
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Lauritzen, Marie.
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| LC no. |
2011051927 |
| ISBN |
9783631635742 |
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3631635745 |
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