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\nAnna Bonshek, Per Brask, John Danvers, William S. Haney II, Amy Ione,  \nMichael Mangan, Arthur Versluis, Christopher Webster, Ralph Yarrow  \nRelocating Consciousness Diasporic Writers and the Dynamics of Literary Experience  \nDaphnE GRaCE  \nAmsterdam-New York, NY 2007  \nCover Design: Aart Jan Bergshoeff  \nThe paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of“ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation-Paper for documentsRequirements for permanence”.  \nISBN-13: 978-90-420-2252-2  \nISSN: 1573-2193  \n©Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam-New York, NY 2007  \nPrinted in the Netherlands  \nContents  \nChapter 1:  \nReaddressing Consciousness, Locating Diasporas 5  \nChapter 2:  \nExploring Self and Other: Theories of Consciousness 29  \nChapter 3:  \nTrauma, Terror, and the Impact of Consciousness 57  \nChapter 4:  \nEmpire, Violence, and the Writing of History 83  \nChapter 5:  \nThe Self-Reflexive World: Consciousness and  \nSocial Responsibility 115  \nChapter 6:  \nAfrican Explorations ofthe Sacred and the Self 137  \nChapter 7:  \nThe Literature of Human Survival:  \nEnvisaging Alternatives 171  \nChapter 8:  \nEncounters in the Earthly Paradise: Relocating the Self 191  \nChapter 9:  \nCosmopolitanism, Political Conscience and  \nHigher Consciousness 213  \nBibliography 235  \nIndex 247  \nChapter One  \nReaddressing Consciousness, Locating Diasporas  \n“You know, Brain, what blows me is that you know yourself and don’t know yourself at the same time, and you know yourself knowing yourself and you know yourself not knowing yourself– oh this is getting ridiculous!”  \n“It’s the old paradox,” says the Brain, smiling with its many cracks and fissures.  \n“But what is the paradoxical force that lets you do that? [ . . .] What is it that permits you to think about thinking and feel about feeling?”  \n“Consciousness.”  \n(Tom Robbins—Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, 362-3.)  \n1. Conceptualizing consciousness  \n“Consciousness” can be understood from within the parameters of its original definition, taken from the Latin sciare, ‘to know’; thus consciousness is a state of being ‘with knowledge’. Literature is part of the self-referral quest of the human being to express consciousness, part of the dynamics of intelligence functioning within itself, an activity of the cogniser cognising itself. The result of this creative output of the human brain is a tangible artefact of intelligence, a text or a work of art, which is sharable with other consciousnesses. If we consider consciousness is the seat of human creativity and knowledge, it must be locatable through its expressions, the arts and literature. Literature should itself be able to tell us something about human consciousness, and indeed it has been argued that:  \nLiterature is an interim report from the consciousness of the artist. […] Literature is made at the frontier between the self and the world, and in the act of creation that frontier softens, becomes permeable, allows the world to flow into the artist and the artist to flow into the world. (Rushdie 1991: 427)  \n6 Relocating Consciousness  \nThis lofty description notwithstanding, a quotation from a “cult”novel from the 1970’s (Even Cowgirls Get the Blues) may seem a strange place to start a text that aims to be a 21st century discussion on world literature and consciousness. It may also seem to confirm all of our suspicions that consciousness is a topic of consideration only relevant to those people living in California and/or those interested in the New Age and its illogical blend of ancient philosophies and contemporary life styles. It serves however to highlight the fact that consciousness as a study has been placed within the category of the weird and the wonderful, the exotic and the esoteric; frequently disrespected and feared in equal measure. 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