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Europe and the United States now confront many of the same unresolved issues of nationalist, religious, racial, and ethnic intolerance. The book addresses the question: How can the humanistic disciplines and social sciences play a role in a political transformation or address cultural difference? This "difference," the other, may be a racial, ethnic, gendered, religious, or colonial Other.
Contributors to this book focus on the serious political questions posed by the problems of strangeness, "the other," in the present climate of accelerating social change and global shifts in political power.
"The studies in this book bring to the question of 'otherness' new dimensions, theoretical perspectives, and rich insights that should contribute in significant ways to discussions of literary theory and cultural criticism. The authors approach the question from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the biological to the psychological, cultural, and political implications of 'otherness.' They address the question in its intra-societal as well as inter-societal dimensions. The essays are rich in coverage, theoretically sophisticated, and intricate in analysis." — Arif Dirlik, Duke University
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Gisela Brinker-Gabler
Part I: The Challenge of the Other/s
1 What of the Others? Whose Subjection?
Stephen David Ross
2 Response to the Other
Bernhard Waldenfels
3 Xenophobia, Xenophilia, and No Place to Rest
Angelika Bammer
4 The Instincts of "Race" and "Text"
Aaron Perkus
5 The Construction of the Other and the Destruction of the Self: The Case of the Convention Hearings
Robert F. Barsky
Part II: Interrogating Identity and Otherness
6 Maelzel and Me
Frederick Garber
7 Blutschande : From the Incest Taboo to the Nuremberg Racial Laws
Christina von Braun
8 The Jewish Nose: Are Jews White? Or, The History of the Nose Job
Sander L. Gilman
9 It Has, Like You, No Name: Paul Celan and the Question of Address
Jason M. Wirth
10 The Malady of Community
Michael Strysick
11 Andean Waltz
Leo Spitzer
12 The East Indian Presence in Jamaican Literature: with Reference to "The Arrival of the Snake Woman" by Olive Senior
Velma Pollard
13 The "Other's Others": Chicana Identity and Its Textual Expressions
Eliana S. Rivero
14 Poetry
Abena Busia
Part III: The De/Colonized Other/s
15 Domesticating the Other: European Colonial Fantasies 1770–1830
Susanne Zantop
16 Writing the Other's Language: Modes of Linguistic Representation in German Colonial and Anti-Colonial Literature
Konstanze Streese
17 Isabella Eberhardt Traveling "Other"/wise: The "European" Subject in "Oriental" Identity
Sidonie Smith
Part IV: Passages to Other/s' Politics
18 Nation as the Concept of 'Democratic Otherness': Christopher Unborn and the Plea for Hybrid Cultures
Ineke Phaf
19 The "Other" as the "Self" under Cultural Dependency: The Impact of the Postcolonial University
Ali A. Mazrui
Contributors
Index