Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality

by Sara Ahmed

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415201853
• ISBN13: 9780415201858
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.5" x 9.3"