ITS NOT ALL BLACK AND WHITE

Its Not All Black and White

Perspectives on Otherness



Edited by
Nika kof and Tadej Pirc
















A PRIORI



Its Not All Black and White. Perspectives on Otherness

Edited by:
Nika kof and Tadej Pirc

A priori, 2013

Series:
Symposion

Series editor:
Tadej Pirc

Papers are peer-reviewed.

Publisher:
A priori, drutvo za humanistiko,
umetnost in kulturoloka vpraanja
Ilirska ulica 1
SI-9250 Gornja Radgona
Slovenia, EU

www.a-priori.si

Cover design:
A priori

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Print:
Birografika BORI

Ljubljana Gornja Radgona, 2013

This book was published with the support of the
OU v Ljubljani and Drutveno stiie STIKS.



CIP - Kataloni zapis o publikaciji
Narodna in univerzitetna knjinica, Ljubljana

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IT'S not all black and white : perspectives on otherness / edited by Nika kof and Tadej Pirc. -
Gornja Radgona : A priori, 2013. - (Series Symposion)

ISBN 978-961-93401-3-4
1. kof, Nika
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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 Doen
THE PERCEPTION OF ETERNAL WOMANLINESS
IN JOYCE'S STORY 'THE DEAD' AND SCHNITZLER'S
'DIE FREMDE'

57 Zerina Zahirovi
GENDER DYNAMICS AND INTERSECTIONALISM
IN LANGSTON HUGHES' DON'T YOU WANT TO BE
FREE?

71 gnes Horvth
TWO WAYS TO USE RACIAL SLURS

93 Amela Hrasnica
CRISIS OF IDENTITY IN POST-CIVIL WAR DEEP
SOUTH IN LANGSTON HUGHESS MULATTO




107 Fatma Aykanat
TREATMENT OF THE OTHER AS THE
OBJECT OF GAZE: AN OTHER-WISE
READING OF ELIF SHAFAKS THE GAZE

123 Elbieta 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 BIAYSTOK

145 Karolina Lachowska and Marcin Pieluek
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 Mateji
EMANCIPATION AND THE OTHER IN ART:
DERRIDA ALONGSIDE BADIOU

325 Selma Kulovi
THE OTHER IN ONE: THE OTHERNESS IN
GOLDINGS LORD OF THE FLIES

343 Byron Bevensee Beltrami
DONT 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, 17
th
December 2013


Nika kof and Tadej Pirc