Encountering the Other(s): Studies in Literature, History, and Culture by Gisela

Description: Encountering the Other(s) by Gisela Brinker-Gabler Europe and the United States now confront many of the same unresolved issues of nationalist, religious, racial, and ethnic intolerance. The book addresses the question: How can the humanistic disciplines and social sciences play a role in a political transformation or address cultural difference? This "difference," the other, may be a racial, ethnic, gendered, religious, or colonial Other. Contributors to this book focus on the serious political questions posed by the problems of strangeness, "the other," in the present climate of accelerating social change and global shifts in political power. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Gisela Brinker-Gabler is Professor of Comparative Literature at State University of New York at Binghamton. Table of Contents Contents Preface Introduction Gisela Brinker-Gabler Part I: The Challenge of the Other/s 1 What of the Others? Whose Subjection? Stephen David Ross 2 Response to the Other Bernhard Waldenfels 3 Xenophobia, Xenophilia, and No Place to Rest Angelika Bammer 4 The Instincts of "Race" and "Text" Aaron Perkus 5 The Construction of the Other and the Destruction of the Self: The Case of the Convention Hearings Robert F. Barsky Part II: Interrogating Identity and Otherness 6 Maelzel and Me Frederick Garber 7 Blutschande : From the Incest Taboo to the Nuremberg Racial Laws Christina von Braun 8 The Jewish Nose: Are Jews White? Or, The History of the Nose Job Sander L. Gilman 9 It Has, Like You, No Name: Paul Celan and the Question of Address Jason M. Wirth 10 The Malady of Community Michael Strysick 11 Andean Waltz Leo Spitzer 12 The East Indian Presence in Jamaican Literature: with Reference to "The Arrival of the Snake Woman" by Olive Senior Velma Pollard 13 The "Others Others": Chicana Identity and Its Textual Expressions Eliana S. Rivero 14 Poetry Abena Busia Part III: The De/Colonized Other/s 15 Domesticating the Other: European Colonial Fantasies 1770-1830 Susanne Zantop 16 Writing the Others Language: Modes of Linguistic Representation in German Colonial and Anti-Colonial Literature Konstanze Streese 17 Isabella Eberhardt Traveling "Other"/wise: The "European" Subject in "Oriental" Identity Sidonie Smith Part IV: Passages to Other/s Politics 18 Nation as the Concept of Democratic Otherness: Christopher Unborn and the Plea for Hybrid Cultures Ineke Phaf 19 The "Other" as the "Self" under Cultural Dependency: The Impact of the Postcolonial University Ali A. Mazrui Contributors Index Review "The studies in this book bring to the question of otherness new dimensions, theoretical perspectives, and rich insights that should contribute in significant ways to discussions of literary theory and cultural criticism. The authors approach the question from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the biological to the psychological, cultural, and political implications of otherness. They address the question in its intra-societal as well as inter-societal dimensions. The essays are rich in coverage, theoretically sophisticated, and intricate in analysis." - Arif Dirlik, Duke University Long Description Europe and the United States now confront many of the same unresolved issues of nationalist, religious, racial, and ethnic intolerance. The book addresses the question: How can the humanistic disciplines and social sciences play a role in a political transformation or address cultural difference? This "difference," the other, may be a racial, ethnic, gendered, religious, or colonial Other. Contributors to this book focus on the serious political questions posed by the problems of strangeness, "the other," in the present climate of accelerating social change and global shifts in political power. Review Quote "The studies in this book bring to the question of otherness new dimensions, theoretical perspectives, and rich insights that should contribute in significant ways to discussions of literary theory and cultural criticism. The authors approach the question from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the biological to the psychological, cultural, and political implications of otherness. They address the question in its intra-societal as well as inter-societal dimensions. The essays are rich in coverage, theoretically sophisticated, and intricate in analysis." -- Arif Dirlik, Duke University Details ISBN0791421600 Short Title ENCOUNTERING OTHER/S-CK AUTHOR Pages 378 Publisher State University of New York Press Series Studies in Literature, History, & Cultur Series Language English ISBN-10 0791421600 ISBN-13 9780791421604 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 809 Year 1995 Subtitle Studies in Literature, History, and Culture DOI 10.1604/9780791421604 Place of Publication Albany, NY Country of Publication United States Illustrations Total Illustrations: 0 AU Release Date 1995-03-09 NZ Release Date 1995-03-09 US Release Date 1995-03-09 UK Release Date 1995-03-09 Author Gisela Brinker-Gabler Publication Date 1995-03-09 Imprint State University of New York Press Alternative 9780791421598 Edited by Gisela Brinker-Gabler Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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