THE IMAGE OF THE OUTSIDER n
in Literature, Media, and Society
Proceedings
2008 Conference
Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery
March 2008
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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Edited by
Will Wright
Colorado State University - Pueblo
Steve Kaplan
University of New Haven
, Published by
The Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery
Colorado State University - Pueblo
Pueblo, Colorado
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Table of Contents
Keynote Address
I Am Who I Am and Other Tattoo Tales
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3
Thomas G. Endres, University of Northern Colorado
Media
An Examination of Female Gender Portrayals on Desperate Housewives
Cheryl Pawlowski, University of Northern Colorado
Nihonjin-rashii: Exploring Notions of Otherness in Contemporary
Japanese Print Advertising Campaigns
Octavia C. Graham, University of Pittsburgh
17
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23
Creating a Reality: Survivor and the Creation of the Other
Courtney P. Davids, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
32
Carving Out a Space for an Outsider Aesthetic: Transgression as Satire
in Strangers with Candy
Christina R. Foust, University of Denver
Charles Soukup, University of Northern Colorado
35
Beneath the Phantom's Mask: The Many Portrayals of the
Phantom of the Opera
Jene Fletcher, Colorado State University - Pueblo
42
Literature
47
The Indigenous Image in the Works of Enrique Lopez Albujar
Cristina Rowley, State University of New York - Geneseo
48
German Poets, Jewish Outsiders: Self-images and Images of the Other
in the Literature of German-Jewish Authors
Elisabeth Jutten, Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen
56
The Image of the Outsider in Contemporary French and
Francophone Literature
Lucille Roy-Hewitson, Creighton University
61
The Pilgrim as Outsider: The Travels and Adventures of the
German Picaro in H. J. C. Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus
Ralph W. Buechler, University of Nevada - Las Vegas
64
Galatea 2.2: Taking the Turing Test to Task
Graeeanne Hatt, Wichita State University
68
Gender, Race, and Sexual Orientation: The Marginalized "Other"
in the Works of Federico Garcia Lorca
Ronald F. Rapin, Oakland University
73
The Outsider Within: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Peter Conolly-Smith, City University of New York - Queens College
79
Tradesmen, Pirates, and Traitors: Depictions of the Flemish in
Middle English Literature
Sara M. B. Schwamb, Saint Louis University
84
Grendelsmere as a Vagina Dentata: Grendel's Mother and the
Fear of Women's Power
Linda Marshall, Wichita State University
90
Public Sphere in Nikolai Karamzin's Letters of a Russian Traveler
Baktygul Aliev, McGill University
93
"People Like Us Are a Thorn in the Side of the World":
Images of the Outsider in the Writings by Ernst Kreuder
Alexander E. Pichugin, University of Pennsylvania
96
The Abject Language of Exile in Vietnamese Francophone Fiction
Lise-Helene Smith, California State Polytechnic University - Pomona
102
Klaus Mann: An Outsider in His Time
Michel Mallet, McGill University
108
Wit Over Propriety: The Outsider in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
Varina Kosovich, Colorado State University - Pueblo
111
Men of Mode: An Intertextual Exploration of Wealth,
Power, and Influence
Andy Jones, Wichita State University.
117
"If they saw different worlds what they knew was the same":
Moral Inversion in Cormac McCarthy's The Road
Sandy Hudock, Colorado State University-Pueblo
122
'Kultur,' Ideology, and the Erasure of Self in Robert Musil's
The Man Without Qualities
William Lansing Brown, Mesa State College
126
Postmodern Identities: Defining the Outsider in
Stephen Jonas's Poetry
Sloan Davis, Wichita State University
129
From Picaro to Private Eye: The Outsider's Literary Mutations as
Anti-Hero from 16th Century Rogue to 20th"Century
Hard-Boiled/NOIR Detective
Hugh J. Ingrasci, DePaul University
136
Borges: Testimony in His Latest Poetry - "Juan Lopez and John Ward"
Ana Bausset Page, Colorado State University - Pueblo
145
Individual Fragmentation: The Outsider and Dystopian Fiction
Dana Solomon, University of California - Santa Barbara
148
Gabrielle Roy and the Images of Women: The Self/Other
Dichotomy Revisited
Mac Thompson, Wichita State University
154
Other Life, Other Death in The Late Mattia Pascal by
Luigi Pirandello and The Outsider by Richard Wright
Sylvie Camet, University of Angers (France)
161
The Elf Child and the Gentle Boy: Children as Outsiders in
"The Gentle Boy" and The Scarlet Letter
Leilani H. Serafin, California State University - Los Angeles
166
Images of the Outsider in The Orange Tree by Carlos Fuentes
Majel Campbell, Pikes Peak Community College
172
Parallels in the Characters of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer with
Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Theia Bravo, Colorado State University - Pueblo
178
'Alienation Sublime* in the Autobiographical Prose of Osip Mandelstam
Donald Loewen, Binghamton University (SUNY)
182
The Outsider as Catalyst: Marginality, Truth, and Violence in
Three Novels by Laura Restrepo
Maria G. Akrabova, Wichita State University
189
Pariahs in Toni Morrison's Fiction: Catalysts for Change
Cindy Jones-Shoeman, Pueblo Community College - Fremont County Campus
194
Ending the Insider/Outsider Class Divide: Marxist Revolution in
Vikram Seth's An Equal Music
Lindsey Ayres, Wichita State University
199
Color Copy: Woolf's Parody "The Mark on the Wall" Deconstructs
"The Yellow Wallpaper"
Katherine E. Woodville, Wichita State University
205
Theory
210
Locke and Spinoza in Jonathan Israel's Radical Enlightenment
Carl Pletsch, University of Colorado - Denver
211
Georg Simmel: The Stranger as a Social Category
Darrell Arnold, University of Colorado - Colorado Springs
216
J Harlen Bretz: A Geological Outsider
Stephen Boss, University of Wyoming
222
Being an Outsider When You Are an Insider
Dan W. Forsyth, Colorado State University - Pueblo
232
The Outsider: Rescuers and Those They Rescued during the
Holocaust, 1933-45
Mary J. Gallant, Rowan University
237
Rhetorical Models: Assessing the Adequacy of One's Vocabulary
242
Lin Allen, University of Northern Colorado
Society
Turned Inside(r)-Out(sider): Finding Middle Ground in a Rural-Urban Rift
Donna Evans, Washington State University
Reframing Resilience: Rhetoric of Social Heroism as Voiced by Elderly
Hurricane Katrina Survivors
Sherilyn Marrow, University of Northern Colorado
Nancy J. Karlin, University of Northern Colorado
Susan Collins, University of Northern Colorado
Ann Bentz, University of Northern Colorado
Brad Goldschmidt, University of Northern Colorado
Consigned to the Legal Shadows: The Material Witness in American Law
Karen N. Youngblood, Cameron University
246
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Indicators of Economic Development - End of Isolation:
East Europe 1990 - 2004
Suleyman C. Bozkus, University of Utah
264
Contexts and Contours of Race: Immigrant Status and Perceived Life
Satisfaction amongst West Indian Professionals in the U.S
Ian Sakura-Lemessy, Albany State University
Nekehia Quashie, University of Utah
Donna-May Sakura-Lemessy, Albany State University
274
"Lads" Serving Time: Attachment, Commitment, and Involvement of
Young Adult British Prisoners
Rachel A. Eddington, University of Utah
281
Black Cowboys - In the Shadows of the Trail
Peter A. Howard, State University of New York - Buffalo
289
Skateboarding as the Inside Track for Outsiders:
A Qualitative Review of a Community Skateboarding and Snowboarding
Program as Positive Youth Development
J. Kyle Busing, Husson College
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Carrie L. West, University of Northern Colorado
296
The Changing Nature of Gender in the Workplace:
A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Gender Differences in
Job Quality Characteristics and Perceived Job Satisfaction
Jonathan H. Westover, University of Utah
303
Don't Categorize Me by Sexuality - Coming Out or Not:
The Fragment Identity and Fear of Being Outcaste
Pin Chen, University of Northern Colorado
314
Rhetoric, Identity, and the "Outsider": A Rhetorical Examination of
Malcolm X and His Perceived Identity as an "Outsider"
Kelly C. Scott, University of Northern Colorado
324
Are Unions Becoming the New Outsiders?
Amanda Swanson, Colorado State University - Pueblo
327
The Effect of Childbearing on Mortality: A Historical Analysis of How
Number of Children Affected Utah Women's Longevity
Dan Poole, University of Utah
332
ELL Students: The Outsiders in Our "Public" Schools
Lisa Moberly, Colorado State University - Pueblo
339
The Academic Entrepreneur as Social Change Agent:
Opportunist or Outsider?
Sherilyn Marrow, University of Northern Colorado
David Thomas, University of Northern Colorado
343
The Impact of Job Characteristics on Worker Health
Jonathan H. Westover, University of Utah
348
Film
357
An Image of an Outsider: The Symbolic Converge Analysis of
Hou Hsaiao-Hsien's Movie, The Time of Love
ShengChin Hsu, University of Northern Colorado (National Hualien University
of Education)
358
Icons of the Outsider: The Hit Man
Janina A. Ciezadlo, Columbia College - Chicago
365
Return to Paradise: Eight Days to Find The Courage to Be
Jodie M. Liedke, Wichita State University
372
The Two-Fold Outsider as Insider: German Turks in the
Movies of Fatih Akin
Andreas Michel, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
377
Living in Some Other Place - Outsider in High Sky Summer
Haoyue Zhang, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
381
The Lives of Outsiders: Who Watches Us as We Watch the Watchers
John S. Turner, II, Goucher College
386
Marx Madness: Ideology of Sport in Hoop Dreams
394
Robert M. Rowan, Wichita State University
Culture
"The Watchword was 'Cleanliness'": Americans as
Endangered Outsiders in the Age of Empire, 1898-1920
Bobby A. Wintermute, Queens College - City University of New York
Horror in the Consciousness of a Nation:
An Investigation of "phobic pressure points" in Germany and in the
United States through the Perspective of the Horror Story
Michael Bendorf, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
398
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405
The Patient as Outsider: Negotiating the Culture of Medicine
Judith Jopling Sayre, University of North Florida
412
The Blogger as Outsider: Technology as a Tactic to
Get Inside the Media Establishment
Gene Burd, University of Texas
417
Werkzeuge Gottes: An Analysis of the Disadvantages of Christian
Missionaries in the German African Colonies as Suggested in Hanna
Christaller's Novel Leibeigen
Michael Young, Brigham Young University
425
The Rhetorical Power of the Outsider Stance: More, Wyatt,
Gascoigne, and the Dilemma of the Renaissance Humanist Courtier
William E. Sheidley, Colorado State University - Pueblo
430
The Strange Case of Doctor Banner and the Incredible Hulk:
Masculine Anxiety in the Atomic Age as Shown in the Pages of
Marvel Comics' The Incredible Hulk
Thomas Donaldson, University at Albany
434
The Relationship of the Social Construction and Female Body Image in
Taiwan and in the United States
Yen-I, Lee, University of Northern Colorado
443
The Image of the Outsider: Nietzsche's "Der tolle Mensch" and
Lu Xun's "Kuang Ren Ri Ji"
Aili Zheng, Willamette University
449
Displacement as Routine Existence, or
Looking for Love in All the Available Places
Nancy Caronia, State University of New York - Brockport
453
The Dialectical Dilemma of the Outsider in Social Interaction
Barbara M. Montgomery, Colorado State University - Pueblo
459
"Another Kind of Theatre" in South Africa: A Social Perspective on the
Outsider as Self and in Character in "Master Harold"...and the boys
Halley Cohen, American University
467
A Memorial to Forgetting: Chipping Away Everything That Isn't Hero
Elizabeth B. Mathias, United States Air Force Academy
471
Anti-Proverbs: Outsiders' Look at Traditional Wisdom
Andrey Reznikov, Black Hills State University
475
Homoerotic Suspense in Fairy Tales
Harold Neemann, University of Wyoming
478
Turning Outside-ln: Visual Arts and Boundaries Examples in Haitian Art
Amy Lueen Cornish, Pikes Peak Community College
483
The Stigma of Single: Singlism and Finding the Happily Ever After
Diane Matuschka, University of North Florida
488
Cultural Diversity, the Internet, and the Idea of the Outsider
Jonathan E. Carlyon, Colorado State University
491
The Hand, Medieval Monstrosity, and Modern Myth
Karen Aschenbrenner, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
495
Outside In: Conspiracy Theory as Cultural Artifact
Chase Pielak, Claremont Graduate University
503
The Intentional Outcast: Outsiders as the Elite in
Twentieth-Century Counter-Culture
Michaela Sakamoto, Colorado State University - Pueblo
511
The Ins and Outs of Religious Belief: The Role of the
Container Schema in the Western Church's Struggle against Heresy
William H. Huseman, University of Oklahoma - Norman
517
Woman as "Other," "The Second Sex," and as "Outsider":
As Perceived in Her Writings
Judith A. Martinez, Pueblo Community College
531
A Look at History: Malcolm X Battles Dr. King... According to Whom?
Kelly C. Scott, University of Northern Colorado
541
Outsiders to Their Own Heritage: Art, History, and
Austrian National Identity in the Works of Ann Tizia Leitich
Dan Jacobs, Brigham Young University
544
Outriders and Trailblazers: Non-Traditional Women in Ph.D. Programs
Catherine Hardy, Art Academy of Cincinnati
550