The Shock of the Other: Situating Alterities (Thamyris Intersecting: Place, Sex & Race)

The Shock of the Other: Situating Alterities......Page 4
Colophon......Page 5
Mission Statement......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Introduction: The Shock of the Other......Page 10
I. Bodily Alterities – Between Matter and Specter......Page 24
The Impossibly Intersubjective and the Logic of the Both......Page 26
What Was Postmodernism? or, The Last of the Angels......Page 40
The Grotesque Body: Fleshing Out the Subject......Page 58
Auto-Identities: Avatar Identities in the Digital Age......Page 70
Vocal Alterities: Voice-Over, Voice-Off and the Cultural Addressee......Page 80
II. Psychic Alterities – Traumatic Encounters......Page 92
Eros and Extimité: Viewing the Pornographic Self in Bataille, Cixous and Houellebecq......Page 94
Choreography and Trauma in Pina Bausch’s Bluebeard – While Listening to a Taped Recording of Béla Bartók’s “Bluebeard’s Castle”......Page 106
Art That Matters: Identity Politics and the Event of Viewing......Page 118
Shame in Alterities: Adrian Piper, Intersubjectivity, and the Racial Formation of Identity......Page 128
III. Negotiating Alterities – Spaces of Translation......Page 138
A Language of One’s Own?: Linguistic Under-Representation in the Kashmir Valley......Page 140
Transgenerational Mediations of Identity in Rachel Seiffert’s The Dark Room and Marcel Beyer’s Spies......Page 150
The Braultian Path to the Other: Estrangement and Nontranslation......Page 162
Mapping Cultural Space in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry......Page 172
List of Figures......Page 184
Contributors......Page 186
Index......Page 188