Negotiating identities : constructed selves and others

✍ Scribed by Vella Bonavita, Helen

• Publisher: Rodopi
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Series: At the interface/probing the boundaries 77.; At the interface/probing the boundaries. Diversity and recognition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
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 PiecesThe 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.

✦ Subjects

Identity (Psychology) Other (Philosophy) Social integration. Group identity. Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. Emigration and immigration -- Political aspects. Nationalism -- Social aspects. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.