IT’S NOT ALL BLACK AND WHITE

It’s Not All Black and White

Perspectives on Otherness

Edited by

Nika Škof and Tadej Pirc

A PRIORI

It’s Not All Black and White. Perspectives on Otherness Edited by: Nika Škof and Tadej Pirc © A priori, 2013 Series: Symposion Series editor: Tadej Pirc Papers are peer-reviewed. Publisher: A priori, društvo za humanistiko, umetnost in kulturološka vprašanja Ilirska ulica 1 SI-9250 Gornja Radgona Slovenia, EU www.a-priori.si Cover design: A priori Cover graphic: FreeFever.com Print: Birografika BORI Ljubljana – Gornja Radgona, 2013 This book was published with the support of the ŠOU v Ljubljani and Društveno stičišče – STIKS. CIP - Kataložni zapis o publikaciji Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica, Ljubljana 316.7(082) IT'S not all black and white : perspectives on otherness / edited by Nika Škof and Tadej Pirc. - Gornja Radgona : A priori, 2013. - (Series Symposion) ISBN 978-961-93401-3-4 1. Škof, Nika 271216128

CONTENTS

9 Preface

13 Amanda Maria Alves Moreira

AGAINST PERFECTIONISM: A DEFENSE OF

VAGUE FEMINISM

27 Eva Jus

IMPROVISING OTHERNESS: NOTES ON

FEMALE CHARACTERS IN IMPROVISED

THEATRE

39 Miljenka Došen

THE PERCEPTION OF ETERNAL WOMANLINESS

IN JOYCE'S STORY 'THE DEAD' AND SCHNITZLER'S

'DIE FREMDE'

57 Zerina Zahirović

GENDER DYNAMICS AND INTERSECTIONALISM

IN LANGSTON HUGHES' DON'T YOU WANT TO BE

FREE?

71 Ágnes Horváth

TWO WAYS TO USE RACIAL SLURS

93 Amela Hrasnica CRISIS OF IDENTITY IN POST-CIVIL WAR DEEP

SOUTH IN LANGSTON HUGHES’S MULATTO

107 Fatma Aykanat

TREATMENT OF THE OTHER AS THE

OBJECT OF GAZE: AN OTHER-WISE

READING OF ELIF SHAFAK’S THE GAZE

123 Elżbieta Filipow

MENTALLY DISORDERED AS THE OTHERS.

THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE

PROBLEM OF NEGATIVE ATTITUDES,

STIGMATIZATION AND SOCIAL

EXCLUSION AMONG POLISH SOCIETY AND

INHABITANTS OF BIAŁYSTOK

145 Karolina Lachowska and Marcin Pielużek ARE ALL TERRORISTS MUSLIM? IMAGE OF

THE TERRORISM AND TERRORIST AMONG

THE EUROPEAN STUDENTS

171 Bashar Ibrahim AlHadla

THE PRAGMATIC OF MAKING THE NEWS

IN AN OPEN SOCIETY

191 Lovie Edwin Seru

THE AMBIENT COMMUNICATION OF

DIABETES HEALTH INFORMATION IN

SMALL SCALE COMMUNITIES OF

BOTSWANA

205 Bertalan Kozma

THE GULF WAR – A CLASH OF CULTURES AND

INTERESTS

219 Adrianna Siebers

DUBICZE CERKIEWNE IN PODLASIE,

POLAND – A VILLAGE CLOSER TO

HEAVEN? NOTES FROM FIELDWORK IN

A MULTI-RELIGIOUS VILLAGE

235 Ai Liang

HYBRIDITY: ENGLISHNESS AND OTHERNESS IN

JOSEPH CONRAD'S NOVELS THE SECRET AGENT

AND UNDER WESTERN EYES

249 Anneliese Hatton

PORTUGAL – THE ETERNAL OTHER?

PORTUGUESE NATIONAL IDENTITY AS

CONSTRUCTED BY ITS ALTERED GLOBAL

RELATIONSHIPS

267 Anna Grzywacz

INFLUENCE OF “OTHER” ON THE INDONESIAN

NATIONAL IDENTITY. INTERNAL AND

EXTERNAL DIMENSIONS

285 Avi Mizrahi

CONSTRUCTING THE “OTHER” IN MUSICAL

POLICIES: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF FOLK

MUSIC IN TURKEY AND REBETIKA IN GREECE

(1920-1950)

309 Bojana Matejić

EMANCIPATION AND THE OTHER IN ART:

DERRIDA ALONGSIDE BADIOU

325 Selma Kulović

THE OTHER IN ONE: THE OTHERNESS IN

GOLDING’S LORD OF THE FLIES

343 Byron Bevensee Beltrami

DON’T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN! EMOTIONS,

NARRATIVES AND EPISTEMIC PARTIALITY

PREFACE

Dialogue always goes two ways and the exchange of views is the essence of

scientific discourse. International meetings of (future) researchers, scientists and

lecturers promote and point out just that – the thesis and antithesis, from which

it is sometimes possible (when the demanding conditions are met) to evolve an

inventive synthesis. This is the point on which the production of new knowledge

and findings take place. This is the essence of science itself.

However, it would be wrong to assume that there can be only one the-

sis and one antithesis in relation to a particular life-world problem. Everything is

not just black and white; there is rather a whole range of colours, views, opin-

ions, positions, and perspectives. Particularity and diversity of horizons ensure

quality of science and they help science with its self-preservation. The Interna-

tional Interdisciplinary Student Conference (IISC2013) It's not all black and white

that took place between 14 and 16 November 2013 at the University of Ljubljana

focused on this range of diversity and difference from which new findings may

emerge.

Questions that arose were mostly on other, Other and otherness. The

main focus was on encountering and addressing different approaches to com-

mon subject matters. Forty-five participants who came to Ljubljana from all

around the world and represented all the continents, raised questions on philos-

ophy, sociology, psychology, history, religion, anthropology, art, literature, ar-

chitecture, etc.

Conferences and publishing of papers promote student activity outside

of formal education. It is important that young people with similar interests meet

and have the opportunity to think about current social, cultural, historical, po-

litical, and ethical realities, and can reflect on historical and contemporary issues.

The discussion at this year's conference was focused on the method for estab-

lishing your own identity in relation to others, which is the first step towards

analysing the basic concepts that we operate with in everyday life (we-they, me-

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you, stranger, differences), and stereotypes that are connected to these terms

(strange, hostile, adverse, twisted). The discussion also touched upon the con-

sequences of differentiation between people and questions about where and

how it helps connect people, where it does not work, how relations with other

people change over time and which groups gained or lost their statuses over the

centuries. Participants discussed cultural patterns and the role of culture (or tra-

dition) itself in creation of collective identity of social, racial, national, and su-

pranational formations. They also touched upon questions of where the differ-

entiation stems from, how it is legitimized and sustained, why it not only seems

to be a part of our everyday life, but we do not even question it.

The conference itself and this collection of the best papers try to reflect

on this self-evidence, analyse it, and try to resolve it.

Ljubljana, 17th December 2013

Nika Škof and Tadej Pirc