The Shock of the Other: Situating Alterities -- Colophon -- Mission Statement -- Contents -- Introduction: The Shock of the Other -- I. Bodily Alterities - Between Matter and Specter -- The Impossibly Intersubjective and the Logic of the Both -- What Was Postmodernism? or, The Last of the Angels -- The Grotesque Body: Fleshing Out the Subject -- Auto-Identities: Avatar Identities in the Digital Age -- Vocal Alterities: Voice-Over, Voice-Off and the Cultural Addressee -- II. Psychic Alterities - Traumatic Encounters -- Eros and Extimité: Viewing the Pornographic Self in Bataille, Cixous and Houellebecq -- Choreography and Trauma in Pina Bausch's Bluebeard - While Listening to a Taped Recording of Béla Bartók's "Bluebeard's Castle" -- Art That Matters: Identity Politics and the Event of Viewing -- Shame in Alterities: Adrian Piper, Intersubjectivity, and the Racial Formation of Identity -- III. Negotiating Alterities - Spaces of Translation -- A Language of One's Own?: Linguistic Under-Representation in the Kashmir Valley -- Transgenerational Mediations of Identity in Rachel Seiffert's The Dark Room and Marcel Beyer's Spies -- The Braultian Path to the Other: Estrangement and Nontranslation -- Mapping Cultural Space in Contemporary Northern Irish Poetry -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Index.