Resistant Hybridities

Author : Shelly Bhoil
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498552363

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Resistant Hybridities by Shelly Bhoil Pdf

With its analytic focus on the cultural production by Tibetans-in-exile, this volume examines contemporary Tibetan fiction, poetry, music, art, cinema, pamphlets, testimony, and memoir. The twelve case studies highlight the themes of Tibetans’ self-representation, politicized national consciousness, religious and cultural heritages, and resistance to the forces of colonization. This book demonstrates how Tibetan cultural narratives adjust to intercultural influences and ongoing social and political struggles in exile.

Author : Sue Ann Barratt,Aleah N. Ranjitsingh
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496833716

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Dougla in the Twenty-First Century by Sue Ann Barratt,Aleah N. Ranjitsingh Pdf

Identity is often fraught for multiracial Douglas, people of both South Asian and African descent in the Caribbean. In this groundbreaking volume, Sue Ann Barratt and Aleah N. Ranjitsingh explore the particular meanings of a Dougla identity and examine Dougla maneuverability both at home and in the diaspora. The authors scrutinize the perception of Douglaness over time, contemporary Dougla negotiations of social demands, their expansion of ethnicity as an intersectional identity, and the experiences of Douglas within the diaspora outside the Caribbean. Through an examination of how Douglas experience their claim to multiracialism and how ethnic identity may be enforced or interrupted, the authors firmly situate this analysis in ongoing debates about multiracial identity. Based on interviews with over one hundred Douglas, Barratt and Ranjitsingh explore the multiple subjectivities Douglas express, confirm, challenge, negotiate, and add to prevailing understandings. Contemplating this, Dougla in the Twenty-First Century adds to the global discourse of multiethnic identity and how it impacts living both in the Caribbean, where it is easily recognizable, and in the diaspora, where the Dougla remains a largely unacknowledged designation. This book deliberately expands the conversation beyond the limits of biraciality and the Black/white binary and contributes nuance to current interpretations of the lives of multiracial people by introducing Douglas as they carve out their lives in the Caribbean.

Author : Narmala Halstead,Eric Hirsch,Judith Okely
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857450692

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Knowing How to Know by Narmala Halstead,Eric Hirsch,Judith Okely Pdf

This volume examines some crucial issues in the conduct of fieldwork and ethnography and provides new insights into the problems of constructing anthropological knowledge. How is anthropological knowledge created from fieldwork, whose knowledge is this, who determines what is of significance in any ethnographic context, and how is the fieldsite extended in both time and place? Nine anthropologists examine these problems, drawing on diverse case studies. These range from the dilemmas of the religious refashioning of the ethnographer in contemporary Indonesia to the embodied knowledge of ballet performers, and from ignorance about post-colonial ritual innovations by the anthropologist in highland Papua to the skilled visions of slow food producers in Italy. It is a key text for new fieldworkers as much as for established researchers. The anthropological insights developed here are of interdisciplinary relevance: cultural studies scholars, sociologists and historians will be as interested as anthropologists in this re-evaluation of fieldwork and the project of ethnography.

Author : Supriya M. Nair
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603291613

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Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature by Supriya M. Nair Pdf

This volume recognizes that the most challenging aspect of introducing students to anglophone Caribbean literature--the sheer variety of intellectual and artistic traditions in Western and non-Western cultures that relate to it--also offers the greatest opportunities to teachers. Courses on anglophone literature in the Caribbean can consider the region's specific histories and contexts even as they explore common issues: the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and colonial education; nationalism; exile and migration; identity and hybridity; class and racial conflict; gender and sexuality; religion and ritual. This volume considers how the availability of materials shapes syllabuses and recommends print, digital, and visual resources for teaching. The essays examine a host of topics, including the following: the development of multiethnic populations in the Caribbean and the role of various creole languages in the literature oral art forms, such as dub poetry and reggae music the influence of anglophone literature in the Caribbean on literary movements outside it, such as the Harlem Renaissance and black British writing Carnival religious rituals and beliefs specific genres such as slave narratives and autobiography film and drama the economics of rum Many essays list resources for further reading, and the volume concludes with a section of additional teaching resources.

Author : Pnina Werbner,Tariq Modood
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783601882

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Debating Cultural Hybridity by Pnina Werbner,Tariq Modood Pdf

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 : Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137481863

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Fascist Hybridities by Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto Pdf

Under Italian Fascism, African-Italian mulattoes and white Italians living in Egypt posed a particular threat to the pursuit of a homogenous national identity. This book examines novels and films of the period, showing that their attempts at stigmatization were self-undermining, forcing audiences to reassess their collective identity.

Author : Nyongesa, Andrew
Publisher : Mwanaka Media and Publishing Pvt Ltd
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780797495470

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Cultural Hybridity and Fixity by Nyongesa, Andrew Pdf

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 : S. Moslund
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230282711

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Migration Literature and Hybridity by S. Moslund Pdf

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 : Susan Koshy,Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015082663371

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Transnational South Asians by Susan Koshy,Rajagopalan Radhakrishnan Pdf

"A milestone in diaspora studies, this collection will be useful for students of sociology, anthropology, history, politics, globalization, migration, transnationalism, and postcolonial studies."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Julius-Kei Kato
Publisher : Springer
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137582157

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Religious Language and Asian American Hybridity by Julius-Kei Kato Pdf

In this book, Julius-Kei Kato lets the theories and experiences of Asian American hybridity converse with and bear upon some aspects of Christian biblical and theological language. Hybridity has become a key feature of today’s globalized world and is, of course, a key concept in postcolonial thought. However, despite its crucial importance, hybridity is rarely used as a paradigm through which to analyze and evaluate the influential concepts and teachings that make up religious language. This book fills a lacuna by discussing what the concept of hybridity challenges and resists, what over-simplifications it has the power to complicate, and what forgotten or overlooked strands in religious tradition it endeavors to recover and reemphasize. Shifting seamlessly between biblical, theological, and modern, real-world case studies, Kato shows how hybridity permeates and can illuminate religious phenomena as lived and believed. The ultimate goal of the move toward an embrace of hybridity is a further dissolution of the thick wall separating ideas of "us" and "them." In this book, Kato suggests the possibility of a world in which what one typically considers the "other" is increasingly recognized within oneself.

Author : Dr Valerie Gonzalez
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781409412564

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Aesthetic Hybridity in Mughal Painting, 1526–1658 by Dr Valerie Gonzalez Pdf

The first critical study to be published on Mughal pictorial hybridity, this book investigates the workings of the diverse creative forces that underpinned the formation of the Mughal painting. Valerie Gonzalez here explores - with the updated methodology of art criticism - the processes of cross-fertilization between the Indo-Persianate legacy, the Persian models imported after 1555 and the influx of European art that have brought about a unique Indo-Islamic pictorial metaphysics characterized by a positivist mimetic order distinct from the idealistic Persian pictoriality.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401203890

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Reconstructing Hybridity by Anonim Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial theory and literature. The challenging articles written by internationally acclaimed scholars discuss the usefulness of the term in relation to such questions as citizenship, whiteness studies and transnational identity politics. In addition to developing theories of hybridity, the articles in this volume deal with the role of hybridity in a variety of literary and cultural phenomena in geographical settings ranging from the Pacific to native North America. The collection pays particular attention to questions of hybridity, migrancy and diaspora.

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Polity
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780745646978

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Cultural Hybridity by Peter Burke Pdf

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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Caribbean literature
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172146730311

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Sargasso by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ronan Paddison,Chris Philo,Paul Routledge,Joanne Sharp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134668960

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Entanglements of Power by Ronan Paddison,Chris Philo,Paul Routledge,Joanne Sharp Pdf

This book argues that practices of resistance cannot be separated from practices of domination, and that they are always entangled in some configuration. They are inextricably linked, such that one always bears at least a trace of the other that contaminates or subverts it. The team of contributors explore themes of identity, embodiment, organisation, colonialism, and political transformation, examining them from historical, contemporary and more abstract perspectives within a wide geographical and cultural spectrum. Case studies include German Reunification; Jamaican Yardies on British Television; Victorian Sexuality and Moralisation in Cremorne Gardens; Ethnicity, Gender and Nation in Ecuador; Sport as Power; the film Falling Down. Entanglements of Power presents an exciting and challenging account of the symbiotic relationship between domination and resistance, and contextualises this within the parameters of geography with a rich body of case-study material and a respected team of contributors.