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Strange encounters : embodied others in post-coloniality / Sara Ahmed

Ahmed, Sara, 1969- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2000] [© 2000]

1 Online-Ressource (xii, 212 Seiten)

Englisch

Description based upon print version of record

Erscheint auch als: Strange encounters / Ahmed, Sara (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-203-34970-0 ; 978-0-415-20185-8

0-415-20185-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-415-20184-5 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-415-20185-8 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-415-20184-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

739139134

OCoLC: 1349551884     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.4324/9780203349700

MK 2700  | MS 3600  | LB 31900  | MS 3300      Ähnliche Literatur

HM1211 ; HM1211 .A35

303.48/2 ; 303.482 ; 303.48/2

Basisklassifikation: 89.41 (Staat und einzelne Gruppierungen) ; 89.62 (Politische Bewegungen) ; 89.94 (Internationale Beziehungen: Sonstiges)

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LOC-SH: Intercultural communication ; Strangers ; Immigrants ; Minorities ; Feminist theory

Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community whilst considering the ethical and political implication of its critique for post-colonial feminism.A diverse range of texts are analyzed which produce the figure of 'the stranger', showing that it has

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