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Author | : Andrew Nyongesa |
Publisher | : African Books Collective |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2018-08-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 079749684X |
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Immigrants who travel and settle in foreign countries face challenges due to cultural differences or even deliberate segregation by dominant groups. In their attempt to negotiate their existence, some decide to stick to the culture of their mother nations and some stand in the middle, and blend some aspects of their mother culture and the new culture. Although immigrants who remain closer to their own cultures are easily spotted and relegated, they are assigned a place on the identity continuum, whereas immigrants who choose to stand in the middle run the danger of being neither this nor that, neither here nor there, and can undergo severe internal fragmentation. In this book, Cultural Hybridity and Fixity: Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures, Andrew Nyongesa delves into these two strategies of resistance and analyzes the merits and demerits of each with reference to Safi Abdis fiction.
Author | : Nyongesa, Andrew |
Publisher | : Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0797495479 |
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Immigrants who travel and settle in foreign countries face challenges due to cultural differences or even deliberate segregation by dominant groups. In their attempt to negotiate their existence, some decide to stick to the culture of their mother nations and some stand in the middle, and blend some aspects of their mother culture and the new culture. Although immigrants who remain closer to their own cultures are easily spotted and relegated, they are assigned a place on the identity continuum, whereas immigrants who choose to stand in the middle run the danger of being neither this nor that, neither here nor there, and can undergo severe internal fragmentation. In this book, Cultural Hybridity and Fixity: Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures, Andrew Nyongesa delves into these two strategies of resistance and analyzes the merits and demerits of each with reference to Safi Abdi’s fiction.
Author | : Kraidy |
Publisher | : Pearson Education India |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2007-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788131711002 |
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Author | : S. Moslund |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2010-07-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230282717 |
Download Migration Literature and Hybridity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Using three literary analyses to show what happens once we leave behind the theoretical poverty of celebratory readings of contemporary migration and hybridity literature, this book offers a way out of the theoretical deadlock of putting hybridity against purity or flux against fixity.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2016-08-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004333800 |
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Introduction. Hybridity: The Never-ending Metamorphosis?, Encounters of a Heterogeneous Kind: Hybridity in Cultural Theory, National Reconciliation and Colonial Resistance: The Notion of Hybridity in José Martí, Mestizaje: "I understand the reality, I just do not like the word:" Perspectives on an Option, On Border Artists and Transculturation: The Politics of Postmodern Performances and Latin America.
Author | : Pnina Werbner |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2015-01-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1783601884 |
Download Debating Cultural Hybridity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism continue to strike at the foundations of multiculturalism? Bringing together some of the world's most influential postcolonial theorists, this classic collection examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in the context of growing global crisis, xenophobia and racism. Starting from the reality that personal identities are multicultural identities, Debating Cultural Hybridity illuminates the complexity and the flexibility of culture and identity, defining their potential openness as well as their closures, to show why anti-racism and multiculturalism are today still such hard roads to travel.
Author | : Kwok-Bun Chan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1135758999 |
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This book brings together a group of scholars from diverse disciplines to interrogate everyday life events in various interpersonal and organizational contexts so as to answer an age-old question: what happens when (carriers of) cultures meet, or, when East meets West? The contributors to this volume argue that, rather than assume clashes of civilizations, assimilation, conversion and essentialism to be the expected outcomes of cultural encounters, we should focus our analytical attention on processes rather than outcomes; on emergence, dialectics, contradictions, ironies and paradoxes, and complexity. We should focus on attempting to learn and grow, to synthesize and integrate, to create and innovate, to change and transform, at personal, micro, macro and global levels. Or, in one word: hybridity. Contexts of cultural encounters analyzed in this book range from business organizations, through individual travels, to personal philosophies, and from mechanical models to complex systems as social imaginaries. This book is based on a special issue of World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.
Author | : Peter Burke |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2013-08-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0745659179 |
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The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips – recently voted the favourite dish in Britain – to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, ‘Bollywood’ films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these phenomena, whilst others fear or condemn them. No wonder, then, that theorists such as Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, and Ien Ang, have engaged with hybridity in their work and sought to untangle these complex events and reactions; or that a variety of disciplines now devote increasing attention to the works of these theorists and to the processes of cultural encounter, contact, interaction, exchange and hybridization. In this concise book, leading historian Peter Burke considers these fascinating and contested phenomena, ranging over theories, practices, processes and events in a manner that is as wide-ranging and vibrant as the topic at hand.
Author | : Avtar Brah |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2005-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 113465006X |
Download Hybridity and Its Discontents Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of 'hybridity' - the mixing of peoples and cultures - in North and South America, Latin America, Britain and Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The contributors trace manifestations of hybridity in debates about miscengenation and racial purity, in scientific notions of genetics and 'race', in processes of cultural translation, and in ideas of nation, community and belonging. The contributors begin by examining the persistence of anxieties about racial 'contamination', from nineteenth-century fears of miscegenation to more recent debates about mixed race relationships and parenting. Examining the lived experiences of children of 'mixed parentage', contributors ask why such fears still thrive in a supposedly tolerant culture? The contributors go on to discuss how science, while apparently neutral, is part of cultural discourses, which affect its constructions and classifications of gender and 'race'. The contributors examine how new cultural forms emerge from borrowings, exchanges and intersections across ethnic and cultural boundaries, and conclude by investigating the contemporary experience of multiculturalism in an age of contested national borders and identities.
Author | : Nyongesa, Andrew |
Publisher | : Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2018-09-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0797496432 |
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There can never be literary growth in the contemporary world which is devoid of literary criticism, this is the backbone of literary theory. Literature is no longer a mere narration of stories, and prudent literary writers know that great literature is based on theoretical frameworks which give their works an edge in the intellectual world. In this book, Tintinnabulation of Literary Theory: Traversing Genres to Contemporary Experience, Andrew Nyongesa demonstrates how five theoretical frameworks, namely: Marxism, Feminism, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Stylistic are applied to genres of literature. The last chapter shows how theory has moved away from the lecture hall to real life experience. The book is a practical guide to university students and tutors of literature in their undying desire to embrace Literary Criticism.