Date: Sun, 17 Dec 1995 23:32:19 -0500 (EST) From: Aravinda Pillalamarri <ap191-AT-columbia.edu> Subject: alterism Saadia -- I wonder if perhaps alterist is similar to racist or sexist or specicist... that is, not sympathetic to what I had earlier characterized as "alterity" at all but enforcing a dogmatic distinction between self and other, so that "before" the text in question "addressed" otherness, it (sorry for the quotes but I gotta do it) "already" set off the other in order to reinforce those stereotypes to which you referred in your quotation. tell me if you like this line of thought and I amy try to develop it further. -- Aravinda ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ "This law is a rag worthy of the dust off the rebels' feet" -- Fahmida Riaz, "The Interrogator" http://www.columbia.edu/~ap191 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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