The shock of the other : situating alterities /
The shock of the other : situating alterities /
editors, Silke Horstkotte, Esther Peeren.
- 1 online resource (190 pages) : illustrations.
- Thamyris intersecting ; no. 15 .
- Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race 15. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007, ISBN: 9789004357969. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary material / Introduction: The Shock of the Other / The Impossibly Intersubjective and the Logic of the Both / What Was Postmodernism? or, The Last of the Angels / The Grotesque Body: Fleshing Out the Subject / Auto-Identities: Avatar Identities in the Digital Age / Vocal Alterities: Voice-Over, Voice-Off and the Cultural Addressee / Eros and Extimité: Viewing the Pornographic Self in Bataille, Cixous and Houellebecq / Choreography and Trauma in Pina Bausch’s Bluebeard – While Listening to a Taped Recording of Béla Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” / Art That Matters: Identity Politics and the Event of Viewing / Shame in Alterities: Adrian Piper, Intersubjectivity, and the Racial Formation of Identity / A Language of One’s Own?: Linguistic Under-Representation in the Kashmir Valley / Transgenerational Mediations of Identity in Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room and Marcel Beyer’s Spies / The Braultian Path to the Other: Estrangement and Nontranslation / Mapping Cultural Space in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry / List of Figures / Contributors / Index / Editors The Shock of the Other -- Esther Peeren and Silke Horstkotte -- Peter Hitchcock -- Brian McHale -- Sara Cohen Shabot -- Kate Khatib -- Esther Peeren -- Victoria Best -- Lucia Ruprecht -- Kate MacNeill -- Alexis Shotwell -- Ananya Kabir -- Silke Horstkotte -- Nicole Côté -- Ingo Berensmeyer -- Editors The Shock of the Other -- Editors The Shock of the Other -- Editors The Shock of the Other.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Alterity is not a mere synonym of difference; what it signifies is otherness, a distinction or separation that can entail similarity as well as difference. The articles collected here explore ways to define, situate and negotiate alterity in a manner that does not do away with the other through negation or neutralization but that instead engages alterity as a reconfiguring of identities that keeps them open to change, to a becoming without horizon. Alterity and its situated negotiations with identity are configured through the body, through the psyche and through translational politics. From critical readings of angels, specters, grotesque bodies, online avatars, Sex and the City , pornography in French literature, Australian billboard art, Pina Bausch, Adrian Piper, Kashmiri poetry, contemporary German fiction, Jacques Brault and Northern-Irish poetry, there emerges a vision of identities as multi-faceted constructions that are continually being transformed by the various alterities with which they intersect and which they must actively engage in order to function effectively in the social, political, and aesthetic realm.
9789401204378
10.1163/9789401204378 DOI
Other (Philosophy)
Representation (Philosophy)
Other (Philosophy)
Representation (Philosophy)
BD213 / .S56 2007eb
121.2
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary material / Introduction: The Shock of the Other / The Impossibly Intersubjective and the Logic of the Both / What Was Postmodernism? or, The Last of the Angels / The Grotesque Body: Fleshing Out the Subject / Auto-Identities: Avatar Identities in the Digital Age / Vocal Alterities: Voice-Over, Voice-Off and the Cultural Addressee / Eros and Extimité: Viewing the Pornographic Self in Bataille, Cixous and Houellebecq / Choreography and Trauma in Pina Bausch’s Bluebeard – While Listening to a Taped Recording of Béla Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” / Art That Matters: Identity Politics and the Event of Viewing / Shame in Alterities: Adrian Piper, Intersubjectivity, and the Racial Formation of Identity / A Language of One’s Own?: Linguistic Under-Representation in the Kashmir Valley / Transgenerational Mediations of Identity in Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room and Marcel Beyer’s Spies / The Braultian Path to the Other: Estrangement and Nontranslation / Mapping Cultural Space in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry / List of Figures / Contributors / Index / Editors The Shock of the Other -- Esther Peeren and Silke Horstkotte -- Peter Hitchcock -- Brian McHale -- Sara Cohen Shabot -- Kate Khatib -- Esther Peeren -- Victoria Best -- Lucia Ruprecht -- Kate MacNeill -- Alexis Shotwell -- Ananya Kabir -- Silke Horstkotte -- Nicole Côté -- Ingo Berensmeyer -- Editors The Shock of the Other -- Editors The Shock of the Other -- Editors The Shock of the Other.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
Alterity is not a mere synonym of difference; what it signifies is otherness, a distinction or separation that can entail similarity as well as difference. The articles collected here explore ways to define, situate and negotiate alterity in a manner that does not do away with the other through negation or neutralization but that instead engages alterity as a reconfiguring of identities that keeps them open to change, to a becoming without horizon. Alterity and its situated negotiations with identity are configured through the body, through the psyche and through translational politics. From critical readings of angels, specters, grotesque bodies, online avatars, Sex and the City , pornography in French literature, Australian billboard art, Pina Bausch, Adrian Piper, Kashmiri poetry, contemporary German fiction, Jacques Brault and Northern-Irish poetry, there emerges a vision of identities as multi-faceted constructions that are continually being transformed by the various alterities with which they intersect and which they must actively engage in order to function effectively in the social, political, and aesthetic realm.
9789401204378
10.1163/9789401204378 DOI
Other (Philosophy)
Representation (Philosophy)
Other (Philosophy)
Representation (Philosophy)
BD213 / .S56 2007eb
121.2