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alterity (en)

(noun) otherness / (noun) the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation

The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance
by Clare Hayes-Brady

The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance
by Clare Hayes-Brady

The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance
by Clare Hayes-Brady


Wallace was overwhelmed by what he saw as the alterity of the female experience; that is to say, its total alienation from his experience of the world.

—p.171 "Personally I'm Neutral on the Menstruation Point": Gender, Difference and the Body (165) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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