Ana Paula Arnaut
At a time when the world watches in horror the unfolding drama of millions of refugees and the anxiety of identity figures prominently among globalization’s many side effects, this is certainly a very timely book, with contributions that address the momentous issues at hand in ways that are not just varied but also surprisingly illuminating.It seems only appropriate that the book starts and ends (“Whoever is not Greek is a barbarian”; “The Women of the Other and us”) with well contextualized, historical / theoretical reflexions on the unfailingly self-serving construction and ultimate appropriation of “the other”, be it the supposedly inarticulate savage of neighboring barbarian shores or the haunting background presence of Arab women - the barely acknowledged half of the West’s reified “Rest”. ln fact, although the chronological distance between the two historical moments is such as to discourage hasty generalizations, the continuities and the potential relevance are just too striking to be ignored.
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1.ª Edição
ISBN: 978-989-26-1482-3
eISBN: 978-989-26-1483-0
DOI: 10.14195/978-989-26-1483-0
Série: Investigação
Páginas: 222
Data: Novembro, 2017
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Outros Capítulos (11)
“Whoever is not Greek is a Barbarian”
Juan Luis García Alonso
https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1483-0_1
Planning and purism: ideological forces in shaping linguistic identity
Virve Anneli Vihman
https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1483-0_2
History as identity: the Adriatic sea
Egidio Ivetic
https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1483-0_3
Sound/unsound: classroom identities and the sounds of English
Diana Silver
https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1483-0_4
Language loss and changing identities in the Mirandese community
Cristina Martins
https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1483-0_5
Belonging and place in the age of globalisation: the case of Swiss ‘Heimat’
Juergen Barkhoff
https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1483-0_6
National identity and the literary in the globalization era: Canada as case study
Ana María Fraile‑Marcos
https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1483-0_7
‘Who do you think you are?’: a critique of the concept of exceptionalism in the construction and analysis of American identity
Stephen Wilson
https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1483-0_8
Experiencing the identity(ies) of the other(s), finding that of one’s own on/through the stage in Wertenbaker’s play Our Country’s Good
Şenay Kara
https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1483-0_9
Cailís mo chuid fola/ the chalice of my blood: stigmatized female identity in Celia de Fréine’s Fiacha Fola
Lillis Ó Laoire
https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1483-0_10
The women of the other and us
Catarina Martins
https://doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-1483-0_11