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national, historical, and spacio-temporal contexts. Consequently,
the volume provides a, much needed in contemporary Europe,
commentary on issues related to diversity politics as
reflected and...
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In general, feminist and minority scholars perceive popular culture
and the media as either terrains to be contested and carefully
analyzed due to their oppressiveness in representing the other, or,
alternatively, as important, potentially powerful sites, wherein
gender, ethnic, sexual, etc. differences can be ? to use Rosi
Braidotti's words ? "affirmatively deconstructed" (2002, 171) and,
in this way, symbolically empowered.The main objective of this
volume is to overview a critique of different representational
practices in reference to ethnic, religious, gender, or sexual
difference, as well as to discuss the mechanism of representation
itself. The chapters present various interdisciplinary approaches
to cultural images inspired by gender studies, philosophy, cultural
studies, psychoanalysis, linguistics, as well as literary and film
studies. The book offers an insight into a number of case studies
around the common theme of difference as visualized in various
popular culture, media, and artistic texts from diverse national,
historical, and spacio-temporal contexts. Consequently, the volume
provides a, much needed in contemporary Europe, commentary on
issues related to diversity politics as reflected and contested in
different cultural productsFrom Introduction