Word of the Day: Alterity
Otherness is next to differentness
al·ter·i·ty
/ôlˈterədē/
noun (formal)
- the state of being other or different; otherness.
"the problem of alterity occurs also in homogeneous societies"
Parks’s essay makes clear that the “Dull New Global Novel” was forged by the market, and by the rise of a certain kind of book-buyer: a nice, well-brought-up Westerner with both a ravenous appetite for foreignness and a rather limited idea of what that foreignness should look like. These readers didn’t want to run up against a wall of alterity — they wanted someone to communicate with them.
| Thomas Peermohamed Lambert, We Have Never Been Brodern
