Author: Mahmoud Sokar Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3346410161 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 9
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Academic Paper from the year 2020 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, , language: English, abstract: This study aims at highlighting and defining the hybridity in Inheritance Of Loss. Furthermore, this study aims at defining and analyzing how hybridity led to the dilemma of loss of identity. One of the most factors that are associated to the postcolonial impact is hybridity. Hybridity represents the colonial impact that results in dividing and fragmenting the colonized identity, culture, and ideology. This impact creates a strange mixture between two cultures namely, eastern and western cultures. Hybridity represents the western colonial culture that deformed the national identity and culture of the colonized lands.
Author: Manju Jaidka Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000933156 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 485
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Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked. Whereas at the turn of the 20th century, writers from India who chose to write in English were either unheeded or underrated, with time the literary world has been forced to recognize and accept their contribution to the corpus of world literatures in English. Showcasing the burgeoning field of Indian English writing, this encyclopedia documents the poets, novelists, essayists, and dramatists of Indian origin since the pre-independence era and their dedicated works. Written by internationally recognized scholars, this comprehensive reference book explores the history and development of Indian writers, their major contributions, and the critical reception accorded to them. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, and academics navigating the vast area of contemporary world literature.
Author: Salman Rushdie Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140140360 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 449
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“Read every page of this book; better still, re-read them. The invocation means no hardship, since every true reader must surely be captivated by Rushdie’s masterful invention and ease, the flow of wit and insight and passion. How literature of the highest order can serve the interests of our common humanity is freshly illustrated here: a defence of his past, a promise for the future, and a surrender to nobody or nothing whatever except his own all-powerful imagination.”-Michael Foot, Observer Salman Rushdie’s Imaginary Homelands is an important record of one writer’s intellectual and personal odyssey. The seventy essays collected here, written over the last ten years, cover an astonishing range of subjects –the literature of the received masters and of Rushdie’s contemporaries; the politics of colonialism and the ironies of culture; film, politicians, the Labour Party, religious fundamentalism in America, racial prejudice; and the preciousness of the imagination and of free expression. For this paperback edition, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa.
Author: Jacqueline Andall Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783039119653 Category : Cultural fusion Languages : en Pages : 258
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The contributors address the gap in Italian colonial/postcolonial studies by examining how different notions of hybridity can help illuminate the specific nature & circumstances of the Italian colonial & postcolonial condition. Some of the contributors view hybridity as a direct challenge to fixed categorizations.
Author: Mumtaz Mazumdar Publisher: ISBN: 9783656366416 Category : Languages : en Pages : 16
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Literature Review from the year 2011 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: -, Assam University (Department of English), course: PhD Research Scholar, language: English, comment: KIRAN DESAI'S NOVEL ''THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS'' IS REVIEWED IN THIS ARTICLE. THE WRITE-UP ECHOES THE VARIOUS ASPECTS FROM THE THEMES IN THE NOVEL TO COLONIALISM. CHARACTERISATION, HISTORY ARE OTHER ASPECTS. THE NOVEL ENDS IN HOPE AMIDST CONTEMPLATION, abstract: THE NOVEL "THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS" IS WRITTEN BY KIRAN DESAI. THE ARTICLE SPEAKS OF THE SETTING, CHARACTERISATION, REPRESENTATION, THE EVENTS, DIASPORA, TEXT, THEMES, IMAGES, POST-COLONIALISM AND STRUCTURE.
Author: Rashna Jennifer Qadria Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3346208109 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 19
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Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: Postcolonial literature is often used to describe the problems and consequences of the colonization. Here, the independence of the political or cultural is important. In relation to post colonialism, the term hybridity plays also a significant role. Hybridity as such can be seen as a state in which two or more cultures convene. Since every culture has its own identity, it can be said that because of the hybridization, the identity can be lost. National identity is a crucial aspect when it comes to hybridization due to the fact that it is possible that one can lose its national identity when he or she comes in touch with another culture after colonizing. This paper attempts to show how the author succeeded to illustrate the occurrence of hybriditization for the different characters with different cultural backgrounds and to what extent the Third Space is a tool to create new cultural experiences for the characters. First, the term hybridity will be explained in more detail and afterwards the Hybridity Theory by Bhabha (1994) will be used in order to represent hybriditization. His theory will be applied on the four main characters of the novel in Section 2.1. The next section, Section 2.2 will be used to illustrate the hybridity in the Third Space with the focus on the spaces of the villa and the desert. In Section 2.3 whether the characters still have the desire to belong to the different culture after the climax of the novel or whether they detach themselves from the hybridity they once experienced.
Author: Anqi Liu Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3668738599 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 10
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Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, grade: 1.0, Martin Luther University (Deutsche Sprache und Literatur), course: Introduction to Postcolonial Theory, Literature, and Film, language: English, abstract: Postcolonial studies aim at stripping away conventional thoughts and examine what kind of identity emerges in postcolonial subject. The first problem when I set out to work on postcolonial literatures is to confirm its scope. This word scope that I put forward here can be explained as follows, on the one hand, postcolonial literature is apparently vague and general. It’s such a multinational and multicultural case that it is hard to define which country falls under the rubric. Except what we always mentioned as “postcolonial countries” such as Nigeria, India and Pakistan, some writers include also countries like Canada, Ireland and Australia. So when we read the literatures about postcolonial, it is apparent for us to discover, that they include two parts, on the one hand, it is based on the dominant or colonizer society, on the other hand, it talks also about the dominated or colonized society. On the other hand, there are a large number of relevant themes or aspects around the topic postcolonialism: migration, race, gender, resistance, slavery and so on. Trying to cover all the countries and aspects in one essay seems not so specific. In my essay, I will focus on the question “Who am I ?”. This kind of doubt about one’s identity is a “derivative product” of colonialism and a very important topic in postcolonial world. When we read literatures, we are able to seek out, what the indigenous voice want to express, how should the indigenous people see themselves, once their place and identity were forced to change? Is the dual identity always ambivalent? These questions are what I’m going to explain hereinafter.
Author: A. Acheraïou Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230305245 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 223
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AcheraIou analyzes hybridity using a theoretical, empirical approach that reorients debates on métissage and the 'Third Space', arguing for the decolonization of postcolonialism. Hybridity is examined in the light of globalization, indicating how postcolonial discourse could become a counter-hegemonic ethics of resistance to global neoliberal doxa.
Author: Katharine Cockin Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1441161988 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 256
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Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature students, each handbook provides the essential information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. Written in clear language by leading academics, they provide an indispensable introduction to key topics, including: Introduction to authors, texts, historical and cultural contexts Guides to key critics, concepts and topics An overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research Case studies in reading literary and critical texts Annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms. The Post-War British Literature Handbook is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in post-war Britain.
Author: Sahar Khalifeh Publisher: American University in Cairo Press ISBN: 161797210X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 248
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In this powerful novel, acclaimed Palestinian author Sahar Khalifeh examines the stark realities in the lives of Palestinian women. Through her protagonist, Zeynab, born to an American mother and a Palestinian father, Khalifeh illuminates the disorienting experience of living between two worlds, and the search for identity that mirrors the Palestinians' own quest for nationhood. Set against the emotionally charged background of the early 1990s when the Gulf War and the Oslo Accords fundamentally shifted the political landscape The Inheritance takes as its subject the fate of young Palestinian women who supported their families for decades working elsewhere in the Middle East. In vivid prose, Khalifeh traces the disruption caused by the Gulf War on the life of these women, as Zeynab returns to her homeland and tries to adapt to her new life on the West Bank after years spent in Kuwait. In her previous novels, Sahar Khalifeh has established herself as the premier female novelist of the Palestinian diaspora; with The Inheritance, she breaks new ground in giving voice to these Palestinian women and their return from economic exile. With its critical portrayal of the Palestinian Authority, its mistakes, and limitations, The Inheritance offers a surprising look at the realities of Palestinian life and society. As the story of an immigrant torn between two cultures and struggling to adapt to both, Zeynab's tale touches on universal themes that will resonate with readers everywhere.
Author: Mahmoud Sokar
Author: Manju Jaidka
Author: Salman Rushdie
Author: Jacqueline Andall
Author: Mumtaz Mazumdar
Author: Rashna Jennifer Qadria
Author: Anqi Liu
Author: A. Acheraïou
Author: Katharine Cockin
Author: Sahar Khalifeh