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The processes of globalisation and digitalisation have complicated the traditional understanding of otherness. In an age where all boundaries are relative, being other has become what we all have in common. Consequently, exploring otherness in terms of the proverbial act of knowing ourselves is as inevitable as it is seemingly paradoxical. Since literature is by definition bound to words, it is the medium best equipped to articulate the conceptual and semantic alterations in the notion of otherness. This volume offers a wide array of insights on how the other and otherness feature in contemporary literature and literary studies, covering the spectrum of the established branches of literary scholarship: from literary theory and history, national and postcolonial literatures, imagology, genre studies and literary translation, to the ways in which literature is and might be taught to future generations. Despite the diversity of focus, the underlying message of the fourteen contributions is the same: to confront otherness is to encounter ourselves in the mirror of culture.

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Michelle Gadpaille is Professor of English and American Studies at the University of Maribor, Slovenia. She is the author of a number of works on Canadian studies (The Canadian Short Story, As She Should Be: Codes of Conduct in Early Canadian Women's Writing) and cultural studies (The Ethical Atlantic: Advocacy Networking and the Slavery Narrative), and the co-editor of Ethnic and Cultural Identity in Music and Song Lyrics, Engendering Difference: Sexism, Power and Politics and Words, Music and Gender.Mojca Krevel is Professor of Literatures in English at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She specializes in contemporary Anglo-American fiction in the context of the ongoing socio-historical paradigm shift. She is the author of books on literary cyberpunk and the Avant-Pop movement, as well as numerous articles on contemporary fiction. She is the co-author of the anthology Miracles of Rare Device, and the editor of Becoming World: Probing Hybridity in Postmodern American Fiction and Sci-Fi Live.

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