The female experience of the Other
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2015
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Adam Mickiewicz University
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The following paper deals with the problem of the transformation of the female self from the ethnocentric
stage to the ethnorelative stage, as portrayed in Osa Johnson’s “autobiographical” account
of her trips in the book I married adventure. The author attempts to show the metamorphosis of the
protagonist by relating her experiences to the developmental model of cultural sensitivity, as proposed
by M.J. Bennett. It is argued that the protagonist assumes the role of the Other in relation to
her husband in the same way that indigenous people appear as the Other in relation to the protagonist.
The slight yet detectable change in her perception of the Other constitutes an attempt to liberate
herself from the position of the subordinate white female.
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autobiography, self, intercultural experience, ethnocentrism, ethnorelativism
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Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 50.2-3 (2015), pp. 95-110