{"id":991,"date":"2009-03-29T05:11:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-29T05:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/?p=991"},"modified":"2022-03-25T02:05:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T02:05:19","slug":"resisting-alterities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/resisting-alterities\/","title":{"rendered":"Resisting Alterities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Marco Fazzini, <em>Resisting Alterities: Wilson Harris and Other Avatars of Otherness<\/em>, Rodopi, 2004<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-accordion\"><a class=\"trigger\" href=\"#\">Marco Fazzini<\/a>\r\n\t   \t\t   <div class=\"content\">Marco Fazzini teaches English literature at the University of Ca\u2019 Foscari (Venice). He has translated selections from the poetry of Douglas Livingstone, Philip Larkin, Norman MacCaig, Hugh MacDiarmid and Charles Tomlinson, and is co-editor and translator of Scottish (1992) and South African (1994) poetry. His most recent publications include Crossings: Essays on Contemporary Scottish Poetry and Hybridity (2000) and a book on Geoffrey Hill (2002). <\/div><\/div><a href=\"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/resisting.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-992\" src=\"https:\/\/primolevicenter.org\/printed-matter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/resisting-150x150.png\" alt=\"resisting\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a>This volume \u2013 of essays, poetry, and prose fiction \u2013 records various attempts to read the fracture zones created by the discursive strategy of a democratic imagination, where space and ideas are opened to new linguistic and literary insights. Pride of place is taken by essays on the Caribbean writer Wilson Harris which explore the implications of his awareness of a polyphony of coexistent voices that dislodges the hegemony of Cartesian dualism. This group of studies is rounded off with an interview with, and searching testimony by, Harris himself.<\/p>\n<p>The further contributions take up the implications of the encounter with \u2018alterity\u2019 (strangers, natives, barbarians) in order to underline not only wonder in the face of an unknown presence, or the \u2018shame\u2019 through which the subject discovers itself, but also the resentment involved in the creation of demonized Others.<\/p>\n<p>As the poet Charles Tomlinson states, &#8220;what we take to be otherness, alterity, can be readmitted into our literary consciousness and seen as part of the whole, causing us to readjust our awareness of the possibilities of English.&#8221; These essays confirm that resistance is an interface of ambivalence between discursive worlds, encouraging us to read the &#8220;living network&#8221; of a text contrapuntally.<\/p>\n<p>Specific topics include Billy Bragg and New Labour, Schopenhauer in Britain, Objectivist poetry, gender and sexual identity (in Nancy Cunard; in Scottish fiction), multi-vocal discourse in South Africa, specific forms of alterity (in Jamaica Kincaid; in the poetry of Edwin Morgan; in allosemitism) and the deculturalizing perils of globalization.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Fazzini, Resisting Alterities: Wilson Harris and Other Avatars of Otherness, Rodopi, 2004 This volume \u2013 of essays, poetry, and prose fiction \u2013 records various attempts to read the fracture&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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