Otherness, Middle Ground n°1

Middle Ground: Journal of Literary & Cultural Encounters, Issue n°1, 2007: "Otherness"

(Journal of The RCCC: The Research Centre on Culture and Communication), Moulay Slimane University, Beni Mellal, Morocco.

Contact emails: m_ground@yahoo.com ; cherkikarkaba@yahoo.fr; and fsyad@hotmail.com

Table of Contents:

I. Otherness: Non-Fiction Contexts

O'keeffe Grainne, The Irish in Multicultural London: the Fight for Recognition as the Other //12/

Mohamed Dellal, Morphing Paris and Brussels //20/

Sheila Collingwood-Wittick, Scientific Discourse and the West's Construction of its 'Others' //44/

Abdeljalil Tounsi, Speaking the Other's Language Otherwise //55/

Jamal Koubali, Islam in the US Press //68/

Larry Portis, "Arabs" and "Jews" as Significant Others: Zionism and the Ambivalence of "Orientalism" in the United Statesian Imagination //75/

Sandra Gorgievski, Female Angels as Tentative Mediators with Otherness in New Millenium Movies: Angel-A (L. Besson, 2005), Angels in America (M. Nichols, 2004), and A Prairie Home Companion (R. Altman, 2006) //97/

Richard Sibley, Contrasting Artistic Visions of the Other: British Orientalist Painters and North Africa //106/

Khalid Chaouch, Proto-Global Encounters under the Black Flag: Moors, Turks and Europeans in 16th and 17th centuries Morocco //127/

Othman Bychou, Otherness in Moroccan Soldiers' Accounts of Their Experience in the Second World War //141/

II. Otherness: Fiction Contexts

Mohamed Rakii, Historicising Otherness: Theory and Travel Narrative //154/

M'barek Rowane, Sympathies with the Other and Anti-colonialism in Graham Cunningham's Moghreb Al-Acksa //165/

Moulay Lmustapha Mamaoui, Ways of Seeing the Self and the Other in Wyndham Lewis's Journey into Barbary //192/

Soumaya Belhabib, Moroccan Women Writers and the Language of the Other //198/

Sally Michaels, Cultural Imperialism: The Imagology of Otherness in Nathalie Handal's "The Lives of Rain" //206/

Jacqueline Jondot, Duality and Duplicity: Yasmin Zahran, an Arab Writer in the English Language //228/

Biljana Djorick-Francuski, Self as the Other in Novels by Anita and Kiran Desai //234/

Benaouda Lebdai, Fanon's Discourse on Otherness, Race and Identity in J.M. Coetzees's Disgrace //243/

Irma Maini, The 'Other' Milkman: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon //250/

Mohamed Sghir Syad, From (Self)-Othering to Self-Modelling: Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye //257/

Nicholas Boileau, "A Desire Really to Make Myself a First Person": Defining Oneself as the Other in Janet Frame's 'I-books' //269/

Mohamed El Kouche, The Politics of Otherness in Three Colonial Novels //277/

Anne Etienne, Wesker and his Others: A Quest for Identity in Dramatic Form //285/

Cherki Karkaba, Signs of Alterity in Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tale "Endicott and the Red Cross" //291/