Alterity and Narrative

Alterity and Narrative
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9780791479513
ISBN-13 : 079147951X
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Synopsis Alterity and Narrative by : Kathleen Glenister Roberts

Drawing from the fields of rhetoric, cultural studies, literature, and folkloristics, Kathleen Glenister Roberts argues that identity and the history of alterity in the West can be understood more clearly through narrative motifs. She provides analyses of these motifs including infanticide, universalism, the Tower of Babel, the warrior Other, the noble savage, entropology, and the trickster. With current intellectual conflict as its subtext, this book posits that identity is always negotiated toward Otherness. Roberts interrogates narrative constructions of Western biases toward non-Western Others, with each chapter addressing a Western historical moment through an exemplary narrative. This process shows that by imagining and objectifying Others, Western cultures were creating their own Selves. In confronting the ethnocentrism of past historical moments, Roberts invites us to recognize it in the present—in a new way. Alterity and Narrative asks that we afford Others the ability to transcend their own ethnocentrism, and therefore avoid well-meaning but naïve calls for "cultural sensitivity."

The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity

The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 190
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ISBN-10 : 9781443881852
ISBN-13 : 1443881856
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Synopsis The Ethics and Poetics of Alterity by : Maylis Rospide

This volume focuses on language and ethics in literary genres, such as dystopia, science fiction, and fantasy, that depict encounters with alterity. Indeed, so-called “genre literature” embodies a heuristic model that dramatizes and exacerbates these encounters by featuring exotic, subhuman or post-human beings that defy human knowledge, elements particularly prevalent in science fiction and fantasy. These genres have often been regarded as an entertaining or escapist field that does not lend itself to ethical and poetical reflections, limiting its scope to a hollow and servile repetition of genre codes. This volume shows unequivocally that this field does lend itself to such reflections. The contributors to this book highlight genre literature’s defamiliarising power, through which things can be “seen”. In meta-conceptualising the relationship between language and reality, it problematises and enhances this relation by making it more easily perceivable. The book shows that, rather than contenting itself with merely questioning the mechanism of estrangement, genre literature explores the confines of readability and the boundary between the readerly and the writerly. In their desire to represent the Other in all its complexity, writers are indeed confronted with an ethical and poetical aporia: how can what escapes humanity be described in human language? How can human language represent things that have no known referent in the reader’s world of experience? This collection of essays reveals that the most prototypical traits of genre literature lie in the encounter with otherness and the linguistic issues this raises.

Cosmogonies of Alterity

Cosmogonies of Alterity
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:1392066030
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Synopsis Cosmogonies of Alterity by : Sa√∫l Mill√°n

Through a comparative analysis, which uses as references Nahua narrative and Western thought, this chapter examines the relevance of the notion of alterity in different Mesoamerican myths, whose narratives display different ideas regarding origin and identity. In this case, comparative analysis allows us to distinguish between two different narrative traditions, one of which emphasizes the role of continuity and genealogy and another, on the contrary, which reveals the importance of otherness and discontinuous processes.

Alterity and Empathy in Post-1945 Asian American Narratives

Alterity and Empathy in Post-1945 Asian American Narratives
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : 9781000482331
ISBN-13 : 1000482332
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Synopsis Alterity and Empathy in Post-1945 Asian American Narratives by : Hyesu Park

This book examines how Asian American authors since 1945 have deployed the stereotype of Asian American inscrutability in order to re-examine and debunk the stereotype in various ways. By paying special attention to what narrative theorists have regarded as one of the most extraordinary aspects of fiction—its ability to give (or else deny) readers a remarkably detailed knowledge of the inner lives of their characters—this book explores deeply and systematically the specific ways Asian American narratives attribute inscrutable minds to Asian American characters, situating them at various points along a spectrum stretching between alterity and empathy. Ultimately, the book reveals the link between narrative form and larger cultural issues associated with the representation of Asian American minds, and how a nuanced investigation of narrative form can yield insights into the sociocultural embeddedness of Asian American literature under the case studies—insights that would not be available if such formal questions were by passed.

Visions of Alterity

Visions of Alterity
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9789004489615
ISBN-13 : 9004489614
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Synopsis Visions of Alterity by : Elke D'hoker

Visions of Alterity: Representation in the Works of John Banville offers detailed and original readings of the work of the Irish author John Banville, one of the foremost figures in contemporary European literature. It investigates one of the fundamental concerns of Banville’s novels: mediating the gap between subject and object or self and world in representation. By drawing on the rich history of the problem of representation in literature, philosophy and literary theory, this study provides a thorough insight into the rich philosophical and intertextual dimension of Banville’s fiction. In close textual analyses of Banville’s most important novels, it maps out a thematic development that moves from an interest in the epistemological and aesthetic representation of the world in scientific theories, over a concern with the ethical dimension of representations, to an exploration of self-representation and identity. What remains constant throughout these different perspectives is the disruption of representations by brief but haunting glimpses of otherness. In tracing these different visions of alterity in Banville’s solipsistic literary world, this study offers a better understanding of his insistent and thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be human.

Beyond Alterity

Beyond Alterity
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Total Pages : 52
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:654847296
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Synopsis Beyond Alterity by : Benjamin Joshua Doty

Figures of Alterity

Figures of Alterity
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 0804743339
ISBN-13 : 9780804743334
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Synopsis Figures of Alterity by : Lawrence R. Schehr

This book focuses on the extension of realist writing toward alterity, toward otherness, in its ongoing efforts to enable individuals to speak and be heard correctly. Through a series of close readings of six authors from Balzac to Proust, the author shows the ways realist narrative engages the problem of bringing the other into the realm of the discursively representable. The acts of representation involved in that development were not necessarily coterminous with either the representation of the exotic and its attendant stereotypes or with the representation of individuals themselves. The representation of the other was the extension of discourse to what was previously unrepresentable. The author argues that the unrepresentable is often perceived as oppositional because of the structuring of discourse by hierarchies and metaphysics, whereby any bivalent pair is made into an oppositional pair.

Art as a Narrative of Alterity. Part 1: Prolegomenon, Appendices, and Bibliography. Part 2: Books

Art as a Narrative of Alterity. Part 1: Prolegomenon, Appendices, and Bibliography. Part 2: Books
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:631978930
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Synopsis Art as a Narrative of Alterity. Part 1: Prolegomenon, Appendices, and Bibliography. Part 2: Books by :

There is a close relationship between art and philosophy. From time to time, philosophy attempts to make art its theme. Invariably it has to acknowledge the very qualities of art that it seeks to explain - art's elusiveness and its indeterminateness. On the other hand, it is the nature of art to philosophise within itself, about itself, and about the world. In this sense it operates as tacit philosophy. The language of art and the language of philosophy differ in form; but recent turns in philosophy have led to the expression of its truth in terms that transcend language and question its own epistemic structure. At the same time, art has always acknowledged its approach to 'truth' and 'knowledge' as being 'other' to that epistemology. This 'otherness' to traditional ways of knowing is recognised in philosophical discourse as 'alterity'. The thesis posits that in art alterity has always been, and remains, tacit and integral to art's being. Thus, by exploring the ways in which - through alterity - art and philosophy intersect and interweave, the thesis aims to reveal a new kind of knowledge that transcends the rational and the empirical but is nonetheless not only valid, but of the very highest integrity. That knowledge is transmitted through a particular critical and creative approach to philosophy and to art that opens the possibility of the 'event' of Alterity. The thesis uses a discourse of philosophy and critical theory to reveal Alterity in philosophy, principally through the work of Derrida, Heidegger, Adorno, and Levinas; Alterity in art through the works of Fra Angelico, Pollock, Fantin-Latour, Malevich, Vermeer, and Saitowitz; and Alterity in my own art practice through a set of six sculptures.

Beyond Alterity

Beyond Alterity
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9781782383611
ISBN-13 : 1782383611
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Synopsis Beyond Alterity by : Qinna Shen

With the economic and political rise of East Asia in the second half of the twentieth century, many Western countries have re-evaluated their links to their Eastern counterparts. Thus, in recent years, Asian German Studies has emerged as a promising branch within interdisciplinary German Studies. This collection of essays examines German-language cultural production pertaining to modern China and Japan, and explicitly challenges orientalist notions by proposing a conception of East and West not as opposites, but as complementary elements of global culture, thereby urging a move beyond national paradigms in cultural studies. Essays focus on the mid-century German-Japanese alliance, Chinese-German Leftist collaborations, global capitalism, travel, identity, and cultural hybridity. The authors include historians and scholars of film and literature, and employ a wide array of approaches from postcolonial, globalization, media, and gender studies. The collection sheds new light on a complex and ambivalentset of international relationships, while also testifying to the potential of Asian German Studies.

Art as a Narrative of Alterity. Part 1

Art as a Narrative of Alterity. Part 1
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ISBN-10 : OCLC:757096269
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Synopsis Art as a Narrative of Alterity. Part 1 by : Brian James Grassom

There is a close relationship between art and philosophy. From time totime, philosophy attempts to make art its theme. Invariably it has toacknowledge the very qualities of art that it seeks to explain - art?selusiveness and its indeterminateness. On the other hand, it is the natureof art to philosophise within itself, about itself, and about the world. Inthis sense it operates as tacit philosophy. The language of art and the language of philosophy differ in form; butrecent turns in philosophy have led to the expression of its truth in termsthat transcend language and question its own epistemic structure. At thesame time, art has always acknowledged its approach to?truth? and?knowledge? as being?other? to that epistemology. This?otherness? to traditional ways of knowing is recognised inphilosophical discourse as?alterity?. The thesis posits that in art alterityhas always been, and remains, tacit and integral to art?s being. Thus, byexploring the ways in which? through alterity? art and philosophyintersect and interweave, the thesis aims to reveal a new kind ofknowledge that transcends the rational and the empirical but isnonetheless not only valid, but of the very highest integrity. Thatknowledge is transmitted through a particular critical and creativeapproach to philosophy and to art that opens the possibility of the?event?of Alterity. The thesis uses a discourse of philosophy and critical theory to revealAlterity in philosophy, principally through the work of Derrida, Heidegger, Adorno, and Levinas; Alterity in art through the works of FraAngelico, Pollock, Fantin-Latour, Malevich, Vermeer, and Saitowitz; andAlterity in my own art practice through a set of six sculptures.