Alterity and Narrative: Stories and the Negotiation of Western IdentitiesState University of New York Press, 01.02.2012 - 238 Seiten Drawing from the fields of rhetoric, cultural studies, literature, and folkloristics, Kathleen Glenister Roberts argues that identity and the history of alterity in the West can be understood more clearly through narrative motifs. She provides analyses of these motifs including infanticide, universalism, the Tower of Babel, the warrior Other, the noble savage, entropology, and the trickster. With current intellectual conflict as its subtext, this book posits that identity is always negotiated toward Otherness. Roberts interrogates narrative constructions of Western biases toward non-Western Others, with each chapter addressing a Western historical moment through an exemplary narrative. This process shows that by imagining and objectifying Others, Western cultures were creating their own Selves. In confronting the ethnocentrism of past historical moments, Roberts invites us to recognize it in the present—in a new way. Alterity and Narrative asks that we afford Others the ability to transcend their own ethnocentrism, and therefore avoid well-meaning but naïve calls for "cultural sensitivity." |
Inhalt
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MEDEA IN ANCIENT GREECE AND BEYOND | 21 |
SAINT PAUL AND UNIVERSALISM | 41 |
REVERBERATIONS FROM THE TOWER OF BABEL | 69 |
THE OTHER AS COMRADE INOTHELLO AND WORLD WAR II | 93 |
DIDEROTS TAHITI AND OTHER IMAGINARY LOCALES | 117 |
THE RISE OF ENTROPOLOGY INA CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHURS COURT | 143 |
TRICKSTER THE POSTMODERN HERO | 171 |
INTERCULTURAL HOPEALTERITY POST911 | 191 |
Notes | 201 |
References | 203 |
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