Rudyard Kipling, “We and They,” in Kipling, Debits and Credits (Garden City N Y : Doubleday, 1926): 277–80. What, then, do we associate with the ambiguous phrase ‘embracing the Other’ – which, by extension, might be read as Neither necessarily delivers what it seems to promise. I K E P A C K A G I N G, it is the title of a book or article that we first look at both a lavish and a drab and careless wrapping give a first impression and trigger certain expectations. And They live over the sea, While We live over the way, But – would you believe it? – They look upon We As only a sort of They! All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!1 Do you think anybody is English? Really English? It’s a fairy-tale! It’s still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person on the globe.2 Stereotype, Prejudice, and Illusion in the Austral-Asian Otherworldĭesired Exotica: Gendered Spaces in Queer West Indian Diasporic Fictionĭramatizing Alterity: Relational Characterization in Postcolonial British Columbia Playsĭisappointing Expectations: Native Canadian Theatre and the Politics of AuthenticityĮmbracing Oneself and the Other: Overcoming Racial Hatred in South African DramaĪll the people like us are We, And every one else is They. The Quest for Identity in Benjamin Zephaniah’s Poetry DIASPORA The Difficulty of Being: Reading and Speaking in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things The Resistance to Being (Em)Braced: Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs and David Malouf’s Johnno The Other Within: The Malaysian Experience Multicultural Strategies and Alterity: Transgressing the Other in Contemporary Nigerian Women’s Short Stories Nadine Gordimer’s Later Novels: Or, The Fiction of Otherness White Angst in South Africa: The Apocalyptic Visions of John Conyngham Race and Racism in Contemporary Canadian Fiction: M.G. The Civilized Ape TRANSITIONAL STATES MARTIN GENETSCH
Writing From the Border, Doing Away With Margins: Carl Muller’s Sri Lankan Burgher Narrative “Worlds of Disenchantment”: Alienation and Change in Adib Khan’s Seasonal Adjustments ‘Daft Questions’: Xenophobia, Teaching, and Social Semiosis in Caribbean–British Fiction: Using Intertextuality and Narratology to Analyze a Text by David Dabydeen MIGRANTĭesire and Loathing in Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart and Bienvenido Santos’s The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor One Wing Home Floats in the Distance Floating My Presence Stories Retold THEORY, WRITING HISTORY,Ĭonditions of Cross-Cultural Perceptions: The Other Looks Backīenign Xenophobia? The Testimony of Maori Literature ISBN-13: 978-9-2 ©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam – New York, NY 2008 Printed in The Netherlands
The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence”. Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main) Formatting, layout, and final editing: Gordon CollierĮmbracing the Other Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in English ASNEL Papers 11 (GNEL) Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL) Frank Schulze–Engler, President (English Department, J.W. Readings in the Post / Colonial Literatures in EnglishĪSNEL Papers appear under the auspices of the Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen e.V. Embracing the Other Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in English
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