Negotiating identities : constructed selves and others

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 c...

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Other Authors: Vella Bonavita, Helen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Series:At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 77.
At the interface/probing the boundaries. Diversity and recognition.
Subjects:
Identity (Psychology)
Other (Philosophy)
Social integration.
Group identity.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Political aspects.
Nationalism > Social aspects.
group identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Emigration and immigration > Political aspects
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Group identity
Nationalism > Social aspects
Social integration
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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