Encountering the Other(s)

Gisela Brinker-Gabler is Professor of Comparative Literature at State University of New York at Binghamton.

"The studies in this book bring to the question of 'otherness' new dimensions, theoretical perspectives, and rich insights that should contribute in significant ways to discussions of literary theory and cultural criticism. The authors approach the question from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the biological to the psychological, cultural, and political implications of 'otherness.' They address the question in its intra-societal as well as inter-societal dimensions. The essays are rich in coverage, theoretically sophisticated, and intricate in analysis." — Arif Dirlik, Duke University

• Contents Preface Introduction Gisela Brinker-GablerPart I: The Challenge of the Other/s 1  What of the Others? Whose Subjection? Stephen David Ross2  Response to the Other Bernhard Waldenfels3  Xenophobia, Xenophilia, and No Place to Rest Angelika Bammer4  The Instincts of "Race" and "Text" Aaron Perkus5  The Construction of the Other and the Destruction of the Self: The Case of the Convention Hearings Robert F. BarskyPart II:  Interrogating Identity and Otherness 6  Maelzel and Me Frederick Garber7  Blutschande : From the Incest Taboo to the Nuremberg Racial Laws Christina von Braun8  The Jewish Nose: Are Jews White? Or, The History of the Nose Job Sander L. Gilman9   It Has, Like You, No Name: Paul Celan and the Question of Address Jason M. Wirth10  The Malady of Community Michael Strysick11  Andean Waltz Leo Spitzer12  The East Indian Presence in Jamaican Literature: with Reference to "The Arrival of the Snake Woman" by Olive Senior Velma Pollard13  The "Other's Others": Chicana Identity and Its Textual Expressions Eliana S. Rivero14  Poetry Abena BusiaPart III:  The De/Colonized Other/s 15  Domesticating the Other: European Colonial Fantasies 1770–1830 Susanne Zantop16  Writing the Other's Language: Modes of Linguistic Representation in German Colonial and Anti-Colonial Literature Konstanze Streese17  Isabella Eberhardt Traveling "Other"/wise: The "European" Subject in "Oriental" Identity Sidonie SmithPart IV:  Passages to Other/s' Politics 18  Nation as the Concept of 'Democratic Otherness': Christopher Unborn and the Plea for Hybrid Cultures Ineke Phaf19  The "Other" as the "Self" under Cultural Dependency: The Impact of the Postcolonial University Ali A. MazruiContributors Index