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... alterity . Alterity means " difference , " but it also encompasses the idea that be- cause the self is responsible , ethical , and human , it preserves the difference of the other and acknowledges the relativity of subjectivity ...
... Alterity to + B , and this in order to lose itself in another form by loving the self of another as another— ( CM , 1 : 680 ) Coleridge comes back again and again to the concept of alterity to explore the classic Romantic dilemma of ...
... alterity by detailing the sufferings that the slave trade had , up to that time , instigated . Thus , even though the notion of alterity seems to be transhistorical and trans- cultural , it does , in fact , lend itself to historical and ...
... Alterity in this sense is a relation that does not compromise the selfhood of the other . Because alterity carries an ethical dimension , a reciprocity or responsi- bility for the other , for Levinas " eros " ( as the key dimension of ...
... Alterity begins with the most important theme of Levinas's work : the re- lationship between two people . In his ethical philosophy , his Talmudic com- mentaries , and his political discussions that often hinge on the aftermath of the ...
Contents
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Hazards and Horrors in the Slave Colonies | 45 |
Distant Diseases Yellow Fever in Coleridges The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 47 |
Intimacy as Imitation Monkeys in Blakes Engravings for Stedmans Narrative | 66 |
Fascination and Fear in Africa | 121 |
African Embraces Voodoo and Possession in Keatss Lamia | 123 |
Mapping Interiors African Cartography Nile Poetry and Percy Bysshe Shelleys The Witch of Atlas | 142 |
Proximitys Monsters Ethnography and AntiSlavery Law in Mary Shelleys Frankenstein | 171 |
Intimate Distance African Women and Infant Death in Wordsworths Poetry and The History of Mary Prince | 194 |
Afterword | 223 |
Notes | 225 |
Selected Bibliography | 263 |
Index | 285 |
Acknowledgments | 295 |
Facing Slavery in Britain | 169 |