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Alterity and divergence: reflections on interculturality via Levinas and Jullien
The three kinds of differences distinguished in Emmanuel Levinas’ thinking, along with François Jullien’s relevant elaborations, are utilised to...
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Ethics of Honor: Postgentlemen’s Narratives and Affects of Alterity
The ethics of honor is a code for the gentleman and his warrior self, the knight. The gentleman’s ideals, ethics, and affects are explored in the...
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Sheep, Beasts, and Knights: Fugitive Alterity in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Book VI, and The Shepheardes Calender
This chapter reads “The Legend of Courtesie”, Book VI of Spenser’s unfinished romance alongside his anonymously published debut, The Shepheardes...
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Making minorities visible through the literary recreation of their way of speaking
In 2011, Marcos Eymar’s novel Hendaya won the 16th Mario Vargas Llosa award for best novel. It was translated into French in 2013 (Actes Sud) by...
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Introduction
Visions of Transmerica deals with neobaroque aesthetic forms in the service of a Latin American discourse of cultural heterogeneity and hybridity as...
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Creolizing Science in Mayra Montero’s Palm of Darkness
Through a discussion of Mayra Montero’s In the Palm of Darkness, this chapter examines and challenges what Caribbean novelist Wilson Harris...
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Talking Back—The Uncertain Self and Counter-narratives in Adiga and Dangarembga
In this chapter, our focus shifts to contemporary realist fiction in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger (2008) and Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not...
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Conclusions: At the Crossroads of Nepantla
The transgressions of boundaries that we have observed in the works of the Latin American Neobaroque carry aesthetic, political, and philosophical...
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Aesthetic Unrest: “Howl” and the Literary List
This chapter suggests that the a-narrative character of the literary list—its ties to textual over-population, paratactic prose, and excessive...
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Self-Representation “Between Two”: Aging Males and the “Otherness Within” in Philip Roth’s Patrimony
This chapter explores Philip Roth’s memoir Patrimony (1991) and his portrayal of old age vis-à-vis the bond created between father and son in the...
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Introduction: Anamorphic Estrangement
The purpose of this chapter is to develop a Marxist understanding of speculative fiction as a complex and multifaceted object of study. Following...
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Animal Friendship
Much has been written defining, explaining, and cataloguing various definitions and interpretations of posthumanism. While the aim of this chapter is...
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Introduction: Beyond Borders—Inclusion and Exclusion in American Culture
The introduction to this volume offers a critical survey of the contemporary proliferation of in/visible borders in the United States, arguing for a...
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The Ahuman
This chapter introduces key concepts and summarizes the Ahuman. Drawing from animal rights, known as abolitionist animal rights, as well as a...
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Animal Friendship
Much has been written defining, explaining, and cataloguing various definitions and interpretations of posthumanism. While the aim of this chapter is...
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Conclusion: The Task of the Heideggerian Critic and the Adventure of Poetry’s Being
The conclusion will draw together the main strands of discussion relevant throughout the book, and provide some directions for further research....
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Constructing the Self Between Worlds
This chapter shifts the attention toward another point of entanglement, namely the construction of the travelers’ self as a changing narrative...
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The Ahuman
This chapter introduces key concepts and summarizes the Ahuman. Drawing from animal rights, known as abolitionist animal rights, as well as a...
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Conclusion: Inscribing Home in Québec
This concluding chapter is structured around questions of self-assertion and self-reconfiguration in testimony and narratives about cultural...
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Strangers in the Homeland: Dystopic (in)Hospitality in McCarthy’s The Road
In a perhaps naïve but ultimately relevant question that recurs throughout McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, the boy asks for his father’s...