The schock of the other: situating alterities/

Other Authors: Horstkotte, Silke, Peeren, Esther
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York: Rodopi, 2007
Series:Thamyris. Intersecting 15
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Table of Contents:
  • a Introduction: the shock of the other / Esther Peeren and Silke Horstkotte. I. Bodily alterities
  • between matter and specter. The impossibly intersubjective and the logic of the both / Peter Hitchcock
  • What was postmodernism? or, The last of the angels / Brian McHale
  • The grotesque body: fleshing out the subject / Sara Cohen Shabot
  • Auto-identities: avatar identities in the digital age / Kate Khatib
  • Vocal alterities: voice-over, voice-off and the cultural addressee / Esther Peeren. II. Psychic alterities
  • traumatic encounters. Eros and extimete: viewing the pornographic self in Bataille, Cixous and Houellebecq / Victoria Best
  • Choreography and trauma in Pina Bausch's Bluebeard - while lestening to a taped recording of Bela Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle" / Lucia Ruprecht
  • Art that matters: identity politics and the event of viewing / Kate MacNeill
  • Shame in alterities: Adrian Piper, intersubjectivity, and racial formation of identity / Alexis Shotwell. III. Negotiating alterities
  • spaces of translation. A language of one's own?: Linguistic under-representation in the Kashmir Valley / Ananya Kabir
  • Transgenerational meditations of identity in Rachel Seiffert's The dark room and Marcel Beyer's Spies / Silke Horstkotte
  • The Braultian path to the other: estrangement and nontranslation / Nicole Cote
  • Mapping cultural space in contemporary Northern Irish poetry / Ingo Berensmeyer.