The Concept of the Foreign: An Interdisciplinary DialogueThe 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. |
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Contents
Instability and Disciplines | 3 |
Belonging Distance | 19 |
The Pathologized the Improper and the Impure | 35 |
The Present Temporality and Materiality | 51 |
The Exile of Anthropology | 71 |
Foreign Bodies Engendering Them and Us | 91 |
Expedition into the Zone of Error Of Literal and Literary Foreignness and J M Coetzees Waiting for the Barbarians | 115 |
Encountering Alien Otherness | 153 |
Xenotropism Expatriatism in Theories of Depth Psychology and Artistic Vocation | 179 |
War to the Death Nativism and Independence in Latin America | 223 |
Changing Images and Similar Dynamics Historical Patterning of Foreignness in the Social Work Profession | 237 |
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Notes on Contributors | 299 |
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| Title | The Concept of the Foreign: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series Lexington Books The Concept of the Foreign: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, Rebecca Saunders |
| Editor | Rebecca Saunders |
| Contributors | Margot Badran, Coco Owen, John Charles Chasteen, Peter Redfield |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Lexington Books, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0739104098, 9780739104095 |
| Length | 300 pages |
| Subjects | › › Social Science / Anthropology / General Social Science / General Social Science / Sociology / General |
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