Negotiating identities : constructed selves and others / / edited by Helen Vella Bonavita.
The papers within this volume articulate the challenges perceived by an individual or a country when its sense of self is confronted by the foreign, the threatening. Migration, exile, and invasion all challenge the individual or the nation to redefine itself and thereby write and rewrite the concept...
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Superior document: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 77 |
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Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | At the interface/probing the boundaries ;
v. 77. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (226 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Other title: | Preliminary Material -- Tourism, Self-Representation and National Identity in Post-Socialist Hungary / Black Magic Women: On the Purported Use of Sorcery by Female Foreign Domestic Workers in Singapore / Staying True to England: Representing Patriotism in Sixteenth-Century Drama / How Australian Muslims Construct Western Fear of the Muslim Other / Fatwa and Foreign Policy: New Models of Citizenship in an Emerging Age of Globalisation / Choosing to Be a Stranger: Romanian Intellectuals in Exile / Infinite Responsibility for the Other in Emmanuel Levinas and Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces / The Breaking Asunder of Fanny Kemble: Trauma and the Discourse of Hygiene in Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839 / Ancient Egypt as Europe’s ‘Intimate Stranger’ / Fictions of a Creole Nation: (Re)Presenting Portugal’s Imperial Past / |
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Summary: | The papers within this volume articulate the challenges perceived by an individual or a country when its sense of self is confronted by the foreign, the threatening. Migration, exile, and invasion all challenge the individual or the nation to redefine itself and thereby write and rewrite the concept of personal and national identity. This interdisciplinary collection of papers, published for the first time, provide a stimulating and varied set of insights into the ongoing conversation that maps identity. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 1283366215 9786613366214 9401206872 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Helen Vella Bonavita. |