Intercultural mirrors : : dynamic reconstruction of identity / / Edited by Marie-Claire Patron and Julia Kraven.

• TeilnehmendeR: Patron, Marie-Claire,; Kraven, Julia,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : Brill | Sense,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (335 pages)

Intercultural Mirrors: Dynamic Reconstruction of Identity contains (auto)ethnographic chapters and research-based explorations that uncover the ways our intercultural experiences influence our process of self-discovery and self-construction. The idea of intercultural mirrors is applied throughout all chapters as an instrument of analysis, an heuristic tool, drawn from philosophy, to provide a focus for the analysis of real life experiences. Plato noted that one could see one’s own reflection in the pupil of another’s eye, and suggested that the mirror image provided in the eye of the other person was an essential contributor to self-knowledge. Taking this as a cue, the contributors of this book have structured their writings around the idea that the view of us held by other people provides an essential key to one’s own self-understanding. Contributors are: James Arvanitakis, Damian Cox, Mark Dinnen, James Ferguson, Tom Frengos, Dennis Harmon, Donna Henson, Alexandra Hoyt, William Kelly, Lucyann Kerry, Julia Kraven, Taryn Mathis, Tony McHugh, Raoul Mortley, Kristin Newton, Marie-Claire Patron, Darren Swanson, and Peter Mbago Wakholi.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Foreword / Raoul Mortley -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Expansion of Self through Intercultural Experiences / Julia Kraven -- Hansel and Gretel Revisited / Marie-Claire Patron -- Doni Doni Kononi Danala – Little by Little the Little Bird Builds Its Nest / Alexandra Hoyt -- Migration and Making Sense of Place / Peter Mbago Wakholi -- Mirror Mirror: What Culture Am I? / Tom Frengos -- Spreading Roots Globally, Losing Roots Locally / Lucyann Kerry -- Barceloneta as Heterotopic Mirror / Tony McHugh -- Reflection and Aspiration / R. James Ferguson -- Becoming a Person through Intercultural Communication / William Kelly -- Affect Mirrors / Damian Cox -- List Yourself / Donna Henson -- I’m So Normal, I Must Be Different / Taryn J. Mathis -- The Decentred Delegate / Dennis Harmon II and Mark Dinnen -- Scotland the Brave? / Darren Swanson -- Intercultural Mirrors and Cultural Humility / James Arvanitakis -- Cultural Observations and a Conversation about Drawing by a Wandering Artist / Kristin Newton.