Alterity and Narrative: Stories and the Negotiation of Western Identities

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Identity, Alterity, and Narrative 1 1 Sōtēria, the Mother as Other: Medea in Ancient Greece (and Beyond) 21 2 A Man Cannot Be a Prophet in His Own Country: Saint Paul and Universalism 41 3 The Curses of Medieval Man: Reverberations from the Tower of Babel 69 4 Fierce Warriors: The Other as Comrade in Othello and World War II 93 5 The Enlightenment Noble Savage: Diderot’s Tahiti and Other Imaginary Locales 117 6 Modernity, Industry, and the Fatal Flaw: The Rise of Entropology in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court 143 7 The Rhetoric of Possibility: Trickster, the Postmodern Hero 171 Conclusion: Intercultural Hope: Alterity Post-9/11 191 Notes 201 References 203 Index 217 ...