Otherness

“A tale as old as time”—that infamous saying which refers to the inevitability of the beautiful falling in love with the beast, the inescapable revelation of seeing that which is good in the grotesque. Though the elements of this tale extend all the way back to the ancient story of Cupid and Psyche, not taking on many of the contemporary and recognizable aspects of the story till the 18th Century with Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's “La Belle et la Bete” which then was shortened and…

different ethnicities. But this act of enforcing the assimilation narrative is complicated when Mrs. Takemoto steps in the beginning of the vignette to emphasize the idea that his ethnicity is Filipino as opposed to “American,” emphasizing the “otherness”…

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difficulty of the transition of ethnic identity by immigrants to a new environment. He also adds that the hostile reactions of the receiving society regarding newcomers whose ethnic and religious otherness make them, stand out from the larger national culture” (Alekseevskaia,2015, pg.279). The religious otherness is the challenge that the Syrian refugees are going to have a difficult time with. Because of the uneducated portrayal of their religion on social media outlets there is a greater…

paleness to his body (Stoker 113-14). Using extraordinary imagery, Stoker is able to demonstrate Dracula’s features of the Otherness to his readers. Stoker also allows Dracula to have the ability to shapeshift in order to lure in the innocent women with his sex appeal or to scare away the mighty men with his monstrous appearance of the bat-like creature. This is considered as Otherness because a regular English man or woman would not be able to perform this…

difficult, there are artists that focus on expressing identity that allow for a more simple understanding of it. Nancy Burson and Catherine Opie are two exceptional examples of artists that project a sense of identity through manners of fluidity, “otherness,” and hybridity. In the LGBT community, there are people who refer to themself as “gender fluid.” This means their concept of self-identity varies between the spectrum of male and female every day, since they “don't identify as any gender”…

cultures. By consuming certain kinds of food, we human beings mark our membership of a particular community conforming ourselves to a collective identity and, by the same token, we distinguish ourselves from other communities thereby defining the otherness (Fischler, 1988). Hence, the seemingly ordinary narrative of food in Lahiri’s stories not only bridges the gap between self…

social interactions may restrict membership into this organization. These requirements are socially established, that is composed by society and social categories. Each individual can’t be part of any category, only if other people consider to it. Otherness is an idea that is central to the way society initiates identity classifications. Moreover creating differences. A great example would be the female gender, women are the other of men. Uncommon to the other of what’s standard. It is plain…

during the depression, and like other films from the depression era, it dealt with the struggles of everyday life and otherness. Films such as James Whales Frankenstein (1931), Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931), Joesf von Strenberg’s The Docks of New York (1928), and others dealt with depression themes by keeping us in a depressed world. The audience could identify with the otherness or characters within the film because the world they lived in was similar that on screen. What makes King Kong so…

blatantly racist discourse that form the vocabulary of nationalism" (Manning 2003: 72). Borders are also sites of separation that strictly regulate the relations between self and other, citizen and non-citizen, thus stipulating "the manner in which otherness is created and reproduced" (Manning…