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- Title
REFLEXIONES SOCIOCRÍTICAS SOBRE LA ALTERIDAD. EL OTRO MODELO HEGEMÓNICO Y EL TERCER INTERPRETANTE.
- Authors
Carcaud-Macaire, Monique
- Abstract
There is no neutrality for words. This is the first thing we can say when we intend to cope with the cultural question of alterity. My first aim is to take into account the matter of language. Two different words allow the English speaking people to precise the semantic scope of the notion itself : "alterity" and "otherness". Alterity is a philosophical concept, which, on the ideological level, can be distinguished from the question of the "being other". Both terms, however, aim at a theory of the social subject, key notion to the field of sociocritical studies. That is the reason why my purpose will be, starting from my own notional device called Tiers interpretant (mediating/interpreting "third"), to recall and point out the fundamental importance of speech contexts, and of the interplay between phasing and adjusting processes which occur when social groups come to face an Other, whatever real or supposed he is. I also intend to illustrate these observations and debates with the Arabic Other emerging in French culture and progressively built through images, more precisely, films of the thirties. Figure invested by somewhat contradictory discourses, the so-called Arabic, is built all along history with learned, ready-made and recognized schemes. To compare this figure with that one emerging in Algerian films is particularly suggesting. The identity coming through is laboured by the "otherness" formerly promoted inside social discourse and made valid by the culture of the former colonizer.
- Subjects
FRANCE; OTHER (Philosophy); SOCIAL sciences; ARAB philosophy; FRENCH philosophy; COLONIZATION -- Social aspects
- Publication
Káñina. Revista de Artes y Letras de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2008, Vol 32, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
0378-0473
- Publication type
Article