LEADER 03956nam 2200745Ia 450 001 9910811935803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-7914-7951-X 010 $a1-4356-0647-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000479624 035 $a(OCoLC)181102787 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575964 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000101562 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11125232 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000101562 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10042379 035 $a(PQKB)11550875 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407538 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse6581 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407538 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10575964 035 $a(OCoLC)923405190 035 $a(DE-B1597)684302 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791479513 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000479624 100 $a20061204d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlterity and narrative $estories and the negotiation of Western identities /$fKathleen Glenister Roberts 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAlbany $cState University of New York Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 225 1 $aSUNY series, negotiating identity 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-7217-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 203-216) and index. 327 $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tSo¯te¯ria, the Mother as Other -- $tA Man Cannot Be a Prophet in His Own Country -- $tThe Curses of Medieval Man -- $tFierce Warriors -- $tThe Enlightenment Noble Savage -- $tModernity, Industry, and the Fatal Flaw -- $tThe Rhetoric of Possibility -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aDrawing from the fields of rhetoric, cultural studies, literature, and folkloristics, Kathleen Glenister Roberts argues that identity and the history of alterity in the West can be understood more clearly through narrative motifs. She provides analyses of these motifs including infanticide, universalism, the Tower of Babel, the warrior Other, the noble savage, entropology, and the trickster. With current intellectual conflict as its subtext, this book posits that identity is always negotiated toward Otherness. Roberts interrogates narrative constructions of Western biases toward non-Western Others, with each chapter addressing a Western historical moment through an exemplary narrative. This process shows that by imagining and objectifying Others, Western cultures were creating their own Selves. In confronting the ethnocentrism of past historical moments, Roberts invites us to recognize it in the present?in a new way. Alterity and Narrative asks that we afford Others the ability to transcend their own ethnocentrism, and therefore avoid well-meaning but naïve calls for "cultural sensitivity." 410 0$aSUNY series, negotiating identity. 606 $aSocial perception$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aPrejudices$zEurope$xHistory 606 $aIdentity (Philosophical concept)$xHistory 606 $aIdentity (Psychology)$xReligious aspects 606 $aIdentity (Philosophical concept) in literature 606 $aDifference (Psychology)$xHistory 606 $aDifference (Philosophy) in literature 615 0$aSocial perception$xHistory. 615 0$aPrejudices$xHistory. 615 0$aIdentity (Philosophical concept)$xHistory. 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology)$xReligious aspects. 615 0$aIdentity (Philosophical concept) in literature. 615 0$aDifference (Psychology)$xHistory. 615 0$aDifference (Philosophy) in literature. 676 $a305.09182/1 700 $aRoberts$b Kathleen$f1971-$01719741 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811935803321 996 $aAlterity and narrative$94117828 997 $aUNINA