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The Concept of the Foreign
An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
The Concept of the Foreign
An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
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The Concept of the Foreign investigates the diverse and consequential uses of the concept of the foreign-a formidable and hitherto untheorized force in everyday discourse and practice. This highly original work-whose experimental nature moves beyond traditional academic bounds-undertakes to theorize the meanings, deployments, and consequences of "foreignness", a term largely overlooked by academic debates. Innovative in format, the book comprises an introductory theoretical dialogue and seven essays, each authored by a scholar from a different discipline-anthropology, literary theory, psychology, philosophy, social work, history, and women's studies-who investigate how his/her disciplines engage and define the concept of the foreign. 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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Instability and Discipline(s)
Chapter 3 Belonging, Distance
Chapter 4 The Pathologized, the Improper, and the Impure
Chapter 5 The Present: Temporality and Materiality
Part 6 Local Manifestations
Chapter 7 The Exile of Anthropology
Chapter 8 Foreign Bodies: Engendering Them and Us
Chapter 9 Expedition into the Zone of Error: Of Literal and Literary Foreignness and J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians
Chapter 10 Encountering Alien Otherness
Chapter 11 Xenotropism: Expatriatism in Theories of Depth Psychology and Artistic Vocation
Chapter 12 War to the Death: Nativism and Independence in Latin America
Chapter 13 Changing Images and Similar Dynamics: Historical Patterning of Foreignness in the Social Work Profession
Product details
| Published | Nov 23 2002 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 320 |
| ISBN | 9780739104095 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Dimensions | 9 x 7 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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