The shock of the other: situating alterities
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam [u.a.] Rodopi 2007
Schriftenreihe:Thamyris intersecting 15
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:BSB01
Volltext
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (190 S.)
ISBN:9781435602496
1435602498
9789042021990
9042021993

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Volltext öffnen