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The Concept of the Foreign investigates the diverse and consequential uses of the concept of the foreign—a formidable and hitherto untheorized force in everyday discourse and practice. This highly original work—whose experimental nature moves beyond traditional academic bounds—undertakes to theorize the meanings, deployments, and consequences of "foreignness", a term largely overlooked by academic debates. Innovative in format, the book comprises an introductory theoretical dialogue and seven essays, each authored by a scholar from a different discipline—anthropology, literary theory, psychology, philosophy, social work, history, and women's studies-who investigate how his/her disciplines engage and define the concept of the foreign. Drawing out literal and metaphorical meanings of "foreignness" this wide-ranging volume offers much to scholars of postcolonial, gender, and cultural studies seeking new approaches to the study of alterity.
Contents
Part 1 Theoretical Dialogue
Chapter 2 Instability and Discipline(s)
Chapter 3 Belonging, Distance
Chapter 4 The Pathologized, the Improper, and the Impure
Chapter 5 The Present: Temporality and Materiality
Part 6 Local Manifestations
Chapter 7 The Exile of Anthropology
Chapter 8 Foreign Bodies: Engendering Them and Us
Chapter 9 Expedition into the Zone of Error: Of Literal and Literary Foreignness and J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians
Chapter 10 Encountering Alien Otherness
Chapter 11 Xenotropism: Expatriatism in Theories of Depth Psychology and Artistic Vocation
Chapter 12 War to the Death: Nativism and Independence in Latin America
Chapter 13 Changing Images and Similar Dynamics: Historical Patterning of Foreignness in the Social Work Profession
