ABSTRACT
What lies beyond the West? Who is the West's Other? In the age of 'discoveries', 1 American natives were the paradigmatic non-Western Other: fallen, pagan, maybe soulless. The West claimed to have 'discovered' the Other, and the question of the nature of this exotic otherness was raised: could these people, who were called 'Indians' by Western conquistadors, be rescued from the world of Satan? This question has continued to underlie the attitude of the West towards the Third World.
