Introduction

Irretrievably divided, unavoidably connected: Encounters of self and other / Maeve Tynan

Part One: Border Crossings

The Otherness of Babylon and Jerusalem: The Bilateral Character of Exile and Otherness in Irish Literature / Michael Böss

Masters and Slaves: Britain’s Cultural Selves in Jon McGregor’s So Many Ways to Begin / Damien Shortt

Sounds of Otherness: The Representation of Music in Ann Patchett's Bel Canto
/ Vera Alexander

Part Two: Photographic Spectrality

Reconstructing Eve: Spectres and Identities of the Transforming Ideal / Carrie O'Connor

Others and their others: spectrality and monstrosity in the photographs of Roger Ballen / Lewis Johnson

Part Three: Gender and Alterity

Female Others, Female Freaks: from P.T. Barnum's American Museum to The Residents' Freak Show / Ib Johansen

Constituting the moral subject: the self and the other in gender theories of justice /
Henriette Dahan Kalev

Producing and Consuming Passions: Women Workers and Writing Desires in Melville’s New England / Inger Hunnerup Dalsgaard

Part Four: Beckettian Alterity and the Plight of Perception

Alterity and Antipathy: The Plight of Anti-Levinasian man, in Beckett’s The Expelled and Other Novellas / Órla Slattery

Eschewing the Other in Quest of the Wombtomb: Alterity in Beckett’s Film / Lasse Gammelgaard

Part Five: Monstrous Others

‘The glowing extremity of life on the edge of itself’: The vampire other in Diana Evans’ 26a. / Marie Lauritzen

Self as Other: The Doppelgänger / Gry Faurholt

The Golem in the Room: Permutations of Otherness and Transnational Memory in Dionne Brand’s What we all Long For and Salman Rushdie’s Fury / Pavlina Radia

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