Embracing the Other: Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in English
Dunja M. Mohr
Jan 2008 · ASNEL papers Book 11 · Rodopi
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In the wake of addressing multiculturalism, transculturalism, racism, and ethnicity, the issue of xenophobia and xenophilia has been somewhat marginalized. The present collection seeks, from a variety of angles, to investigate the relations between Self and Other in the New Literatures in English. How do we register differences and what does an embrace signify for both Self and Other? The contributors deal with a variety of topics, ranging from theoretical reflections on xenophobia, its exploration in terms of intertextuality and New Zealand/Maori historiography, to analyses of migrant and border narratives, and issues of transitionality, authenticity, and racism in Canada and South Africa. Others negotiate identity and alterity in Nigerian, Malaysian, Australian, Indian, Canadian, and Caribbean texts, or reflect on diaspora and orientalism in Australian-Asian and West Indian contexts.
About the author
Dunja M. Mohr is an assistant professor at Erfurt University, Germany, and has taught English literature and cultural studies at the Universities of Trier and Erlangen, Germany, where she was also a postdoctoral fellow. She is on the editorial board of Margaret Atwood Studies and has written on utopian literature, cyborgs, posthumans, contemporary Canadian and British literature, and transdifference, and has specialized in gender and postcolonial studies. Contributors: Vera Alexander, David La Breche, Haike Frank, Martin Genetsch, Jörg Heinke, Sissy Helff, Susan N. Kiguli, Mary E. Modupe Kolawole, Natividad Martínez Marín, Danilo Victorino Manarpaac, Raihanah M.M., Mala Pandurang, Judith Dell Panny, Sandhya Patel, Jochen Petzold, Ginny Ratsoy, Dipli Saikia, Henning Schäfer, Edwin Thumboo, Virginia Richter, Laurenz Volkmann, Russell West-Pavlov
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