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1、ProceedingsoftheArtsandHumanitiesPostgraduateConferenceVolume6,SummerIssue,2015TheSelfandtheOtherSwanseaUniversityResearchInstituteforArtsandHumanitiesandDevelopmentandTrainingServices@APECS.ProceedingsoftheArtsandHumanitiesPostgraduateConferenceSwanseaUniversityVolume6,Summer2015:TheSelfandtheOthe
2、rEditedbyJedChandler,SadiqAltamimiAlmaged,NicholasMataya,GéraldineSmitsandLauraMayWebbISSN2044-2475iIntroductionItgivesmegreatpleasuretointroducethesixtheditionofourresearchers’journal,whichthisyearcomprisesaselectionofpaperspresentedatourannualconferenceon10thOctober2014,TheSelfandTheOther.Ourcont
3、ributorshaveapproachedthisthemefromavarietyofperspectiveswhichreflecttherangeofacademicdisciplinesrepresentedaswellasthediversityofhumanconstructsofidentityandalterity.Thefirstfourpapersexaminetheprocessesofliteraryalienation.Thefirstofthese,KathyChamberlain’sstudyoftherepresentationofdisability,ex
4、aminesthemoralcontaminationwhichisassociatedwithphysicaldisabilityordeformityinarangeofmediumsfromShakespeare’sRichardIIItothemusicalWicked!’sNessarose.Chamberlain’sarticleraisestroublingquestions.Therearedisabledcharacters,butaretherealsocharacterswhohappentohaveadisability?Itseemsnot:thedisabilit
5、yisthereforareason,specificallytocueaparticularresponsefromthereaderorviewerandtorepresenttheOther.ShareenaHamzahalsoanalysestheprocessesofdemonisationoftheOtherin‘MonstrousBodiesandDesire’.HerdiscussionfocusesonJeanetteWinterson’sTheDaylightGate’,anovelbasedonthe1612Pendlewitchtrials,wheretwomenan
6、deightwomenwerehanged.Shefocusesonthefabricationofthemonstrousasaprojectionofdesireandfantasyontothesocialoutcast.TheOther,sheargues,istheunacknowledgedself,externalised,anathematisedandcondemnedasiniquitous.GéraldineSmits’contributionalsoexaminesthemanipulationofculturalassociationsbyanauthortogui
7、deherreadersthroughanarrative.In‘RevisitingtheGrimmBrothers:SkewingArchetypesandStereotypesinFairytales’,Smitsdescribesthestrategybywhichsheincorporatesthefamiliarfairytaleplotsandarchitectureofarchetypessu
