The Concept of the Foreign An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

by Saunders, Rebecca; Badran, Margot; Chasteen, John Charles; Redfield, Peter; Owen, Coco; Sakamoto, Izumi; Tomá?ková, Silvia; Zimmerman, Michael E.

• ISBN13: 9780739104088
• ISBN10: 073910408X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-27
• Publisher: Lexington Books
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xv
Part I: Theoretical Dialogue
Rebecca Saunders
Instability and Discipline(s)	3	(16)
Belonging, Distance	19	(16)
The Pathologized, the Improper, and the Impure	35	(16)
The Present: Temporality and Materiality	51	(20)
Part II: Local Manifestations
The Exile of Anthropology	71	(20)
Peter Redfield
Silvia Tomaskova
Foreign Bodies: Engendering Them and Us	91	(24)
Margot Badran
Expedition into the Zone of Error: Of Literal and Literary Foreignness and J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians	115	(38)
Rebecca Saunders
Encountering Alien Otherness	153	(26)
Michael E. Zimmerman
Xenotropism: Expatriatism in Theories of Depth Psychology and Artistic Vocation	179	(44)
Coco Owen
War to the Death: Nativism and Independence in Latin America	223	(14)
John Charles Chasteen
Changing Images and Similar Dynamics: Historical Patterning of Foreignness in the Social Work Profession	237	(44)
Izumi Sakamoto
Index	281	(18)
Notes on Contributors	299