Notions of Otherness

Mark Axelrod-Sokolov is professor of comparative literature in the Department of English at Chapman University, USA, and director of the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing and editor of its literary journal, ‘Mantissa’.

• Introduction; 1. Acculturation, Otherness and the Loss of Jewish Identity in Abraham Cahan’s ‘The Rise of David Levinsky’; 2. Aesthetic Otherness in Woolf’s ‘Mark on the Wall’, ‘Kew Gardens’ and ‘Lappin and Lappinova’; 3. The Prose of Otherness in Bruno Schulz’s ‘Street of Crocodiles’; 4. D. H. Lawrence and ‘Ranamin’: Otherness and Visions of a Fascist American Utopia; 5. The Aesthetics of Otherness in Nathalie Sarraute’s ‘Tropisms’, ‘The Square’, ‘The Lover’ and ‘Hiroshima, Mon Amour’: Fiction, Film and Duras’s Notion of the Other; 6. Otherness and Sexual Alterity in Monique Wittig’s ‘Les Guérillères’; 7. Mystery, Authority and the Patriarchal Voice in Dacia Maraini’s ‘Voices’; Index.