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.

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ISBN: 9780739104095 | 0739104098
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 11/23/2002

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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.

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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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