The concept of the foreign : an interdisciplinary dialogue / edited by Rebecca Saunders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, Rebecca, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication.

Strangers.

Philosophical anthropology.

Physical Description:

xv, 300 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2003]

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.

Contents:

Part I Theoretical Dialogue / Rebecca Saunders

1. Instability and Discipline(s) 3

2. Belonging, Distance 19

3. The Pathologized, the Improper, and the Impure 35

4. The Present: Temporality and Materiality 51

Part II Local Manifestations

5. The Exile of Anthropology / Peter Redfield, Silvia Tomaskova 71

6. Foreign Bodies: Engendering Them and Us / Margot Badran 91

7. Expedition into the Zone of Error: Of Literal and Literary Foreignness and J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians / Rebecca Saunders 115

8. Encountering Alien Otherness / Michael E. Zimmerman 153

9. Xenotropism: Expatriatism in Theories of Depth Psychology and Artistic Vocation / Coco Owen 179

10. War to the Death: Nativism and Independence in Latin America / John Charles Chasteen 223

11. Changing Images and Similar Dynamics: Historical Patterning of Foreignness in the Social Work Profession / Izumi Sakamoto 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

073910408X

0739104098

OCLC:

49824691