Title: Strangers to ourselves /
Authors: Kristeva, Julia, 1941-; Roudiez, Leon S. 1917-2004.
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.; Psychoanalysis and literature.; Assimilation (Sociology) in literature.; Alienation (Social psychology); Assimilation (Sociology); Comparative literature Themes, motives.
Contents: Toccata and fugue for the foreigner -- The Greeks among barbarians, suppliants, and metics -- The chosen people and the choice of foreignness -- Paul and Augustine: the therapeutics of exile and pilgrimage -- By what right are you a foreigner? -- The Renaissance, "so shapeless and diverse in composition" ... -- On foreigners and the Enlightenment -- Might not universality be ... our own foreignness? -- In practice ...