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: 9780739104095
• ISBN10: 0739104098
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-23
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Theoretical Dialogue
Instability and Discipline(s)	p. 3
Belonging, Distance	p. 19
The Pathologized, the Improper, and the Impure	p. 35
The Present: Temporality and Materiality	p. 51
Local Manifestations
The Exile of Anthropology	p. 71
Foreign Bodies: Engendering Them and Us	p. 91
Expedition into the Zone of Error: Of Literal and Literary Foreignness and J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians	p. 115
Encountering Alien Otherness	p. 153
Xenotropism: Expatriatism in Theories of Depth Psychology and Artistic Vocation	p. 179
War to the Death: Nativism and Independence in Latin America	p. 223
Changing Images and Similar Dynamics: Historical Patterning of Foreignness in the Social Work Profession	p. 237
Index	p. 281
Notes on Contributors	p. 299
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