Homi Bhabha and Communication Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Daniel Elam
Keyword(s):  
American Literature ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
British Rule ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Political Commitments ◽  
The U.S

Homi Bhabha (b. 1949) is among the founding generation of scholars of “postcolonial theory” as it emerged in the U.S. and U.K. academies in the 1980s and 1990s, and is currently the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language. Bhabha’s intellectual emergence coincided with the emergence of “postcolonial theory” in the 1980s and 1990s. Bhabha’s particular contribution to postcolonial critique is unique in successfully combining the fields of post-structuralism, history, and psychoanalysis, and in relationship to the texts and histories of British rule in South Asia. Bhabha is best situated within an often-overshadowed strain of postcolonial theory committed to the recovery of universality rather than the demand for particularity, a lineage that includes Frantz Fanon and Edward Said. Bhabha’s key concepts and terms, especially “ambivalence” and “hybridity,” have been taken up across many fields under the rubrics of postcolonial and/or diasporic intervention. Bhabha’s writing and theoretical arguments are based primarily in perpetual negotiation, in opposition to negation. Understanding this key intervention makes it possible to grasp the full scale of Bhabha’s driving concerns, theoretical conceptions, and political commitments.

scholarly journals Uncovering Identity Complication in Season of Migration to the North a Novel by Tayeb Salih

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-37
Author(s):  
Saman A. Husain
Keyword(s):  
No Value ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Identity Crisis ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Tourist Satisfaction ◽  
The North ◽  
Tayeb Salih

The aim of this paper is to analyse and investigate the issue of identity in Tayeb Salih's novel Season of Migration to the North according to postcolonial theory.  Identity crisis refers to the context in which a person questions the whole idea of life. Philosophically, the identity crisis has been studied under the theories of existentialism. The term is coined to indicate a person, whose egoism and personality is filled with questions regarding life foundation, feeling and arguing that life has no value. in the novel by Tayeb Salih, Season of Migrating to the North, there are several instances that can be cited to indicate the existence of an identity crisis in the story. In this paper, we highlight and exemplify on such issues in an attempt to show how the theme of identity crisis has been presented in the novel. The paper considers the postcolonial theories of Edward Said, Frantz Fanon and Homi Bhabha to analyse the novel in terms of their representation of identity crisis. Keywords— tour guides, tour guide performance, tourist satisfaction, destination and customer loyalty.

Otherness and Marginal Spaces: Beyond Politics and Race in Contemporary African Novels

Imbizo ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Nyongesa ◽  
Murimi Gaita ◽  
Justus Kizito Siboe Makokha
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
The Political ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Community Or

Many postcolonial literary scholars associate otherness with the political and racial marginalisation of groups. Indomitable postcolonial voices such as Frantz Fanon and Edward Said take this trajectory, thereby negating other aspects of otherness that come with severe consequences for characters in literary works. Current scholarship on otherness focuses on any placement of groups at the margins without emphasis on the political and racial elements explored by Fanon and Said. Othering is viewed as either the inability to see people who are different as part of one’s community or a failure to see oneself as part of the community. This article extends the second argument that otherness goes further than discrimination against a group as a result of race and political ideology. Using postcolonial theory, the article analyses other aspects of otherness by comparing three primary texts: Buchi Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood (1979), Nuruddin Farah’s Close Sesame (1983) and Brian Chikwava’s Harare North (2009). The ideas of Fanon (1961), Rorty (1993) and Powell and Menendian (2016) will form a theoretical basis of interpretation.

Postcolonialism, Anti-colonialism, Nationalism and History

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 92-108
Author(s):  
Christine Doran
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Nationalist Movements ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Gayatri Spivak ◽  
Historical Developments

One of the most outstanding historical developments of the twentieth century was the gaining of national independence from imperial rule by most of the formerly colonized countries, especially in Africa, Asia and the Pacific. Yet, rather surprisingly, many of the leading contributors to postcolonial theory, including Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak, Homi Bhabha and others, tend to minimize the significance of national independence and take a dim view of the nationalist movements, leaders and ideologies that struggled for it. The aim of this article is to probe the reasons for this, canvassing postcolonial theorists’ main arguments and outlining certain intellectual currents and commitments, notably poststructuralism, deconstruction and postmodernism, that have contributed to these negative stances. Some counterarguments are presented, as it is suggested that the achievements of nationalist revolutions in the former colonies should be reassessed more favourably. This could be a way of resisting the current hegemonic power of the ideology of globalization.

scholarly journals ENSINO DE CIÊNCIAS NA PERSPECTIVA MULTICULTURAL: REFLETINDO A EDUCAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA DENTRO DA TEORIA PÓS-COLONIAL

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (30) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Hélio José Santos Maia ◽  
Maria Helena Da Silva Carneiro
Keyword(s):  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Timor Leste

O artigo apresenta desafios ao ensino de ciências frente à universalização da educação e os enfoques multiculturais nas diferentes áreas das ciências naturais, bem como os encaminhamentos pedagógicos na formação dos professores. O trabalho é parte de um estudo de representação em conceitos científicos na escola primária de Timor-Leste, para tese de doutorado e tem como principal problema, refletir e analisar como modernamente se articulam pedagogicamente as áreas das ciências que são colocadas ao ensino básico em face à convergência aos caminhos multiculturais. Como metodologia utilizou-se de pesquisa bibliográfica em artigos e livros, assim como investigação de caráter qualitativo em loco nas escolas primárias do Timor-Leste e na formação de professores timorenses. Para o entendimento de abordagens culturais no ensino de ciências se recorreu à teoria pós-colonial, a partir dos trabalhos de Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Arjun Appadurai que situam o universo pós-colonial em frente às concepções eurocêntricas e dos encaminhamentos da teoria no campo do ensino de ciências de Lyn Carter, Aikenhead entre outros. A confluência da pesquisa bibliográfica com a investigação de campo permitiu perceber a diversidade de visões sobre o ensino de ciência que abarca concepções externalistas e internalistas frente aos caminhos ideológicos multiculturais e suas variadas formas de compreender o mundo. A análise dos dados obtidos na pesquisa se deu por meio da confrontação dos achados bibliográficos com o que se verificou na investigação de campo e permitiu o estabelecimento de algumas conclusões. Considerando que os valores culturais refletem uma espécie de opinião étnica sobre a natureza, sem o rigor da ciência clássica, ao admiti-los no corpo dos conhecimentos científicos sem a devida separação destes, corre-se o risco de piorar o ensino de ciências naturais ao mistificar explicações regidas por leis naturais acerca dos mais variados fenômenos físicos e biológicos, fortalecendo as concepções alternativas dos estudantes em detrimento dos conhecimentos científicos que se deseja estabelecer. 

Rhetoric and Critical Cultural Studies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Sloop
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Media Ecology ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Culture Study ◽  
Broad Area ◽  
The U.S

While each term denoting the area of “Rhetoric and Critical/Cultural Studies” denotes a broad area of academic study on its own, there are numerous to contain or capture a specific area of study. Regardless of how it gets cordoned off, the area is defined by similar themes. In one sense, the area now going under this banner begins with the march of British cultural studies (especially, the so-called Birmingham School under Stuart Hall’s leadership) into the U.S. academic discussion that began in the 1970s. As this particular study of culture found its way into communication studies departments across the country, many scholars emerging from their graduate programs were shaping the area of rhetoric and critical/cultural scholars in the very act of researching the ways meanings/ideology were constrained and enabled by the operation of the entire circuit of meaning (i.e., production, consumption, representation, identity, and regulation). As the critical/culture study of rhetoric and communication has grown, several themes have emerged: (a) the study of ideological and discursive constraints (often linked to a critique of neoliberalism); (b) the study of media ecology and its way of shaping meaning; (c) studies focusing on reception/agency/resistance; (d) studies concerning materialism and the ways communication is altered by the political economy; (e) studies based in performativity; and (f) studies based in affect theory. In general, regardless of the orientation, these studies are concerned with issues of power and action around intersectional axes such as gender, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and nationality.

scholarly journals Investors´ protection in the U.S.: the issue of mandatory arbitration clauses in contracts between investors and brokerage/advisory firms

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 520-536
Author(s):  
DÉBORA CHAVES MARTINES FERNANDES
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Literature ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Securities Market ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Arbitration Clause ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
The U.S

Abstract This paper proposes a review of the American literature, as well as the main rulings of Supreme Court of United States, aiming to map the pros and cons of inserting a mandatory pre-dispute arbitration clause in contracts between investors and brokerage/advisory firms that trade on the securities market. The study discusses some proposals to banish this sort of clause and some ideas to reach a middle ground solution.

The End of Exile: Jewish Identity and Its Diasporic Poetics

PMLA ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maeera Y. Shreiber
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Inclusive Language ◽  
English Bilingual

What is the location of Jewish identity? Cultural studies has provoked reexaminations of many long-standing tropes of ethnic and religious identity, including that of exile. Such inquiries have potentially explosive consequences for the already vexed notion of Jewish identity, especially in the context of an American experience. This essay means to trouble the relation between Jewish identity and the problematic marker of exile, within the contexts of cultural and postcolonial theory, drawing on the work of Jewish and non-Jewish thinkers, including Alain Finkielkraut, Daniel Boyarín, and Edward Said. This analysis allows for a sustained consideration of a diasporic poetics—an alternative aesthetic model for imagining community and the attendant terms of belonging. The experimental Yiddish-English bilingual verse of the contemporary poet Irena Klepfisz serves as a paradigmatic example of such a vision that challenges the familiar opposition between home and exile. Yiddish, a notoriously inclusive language and a by-product of the Diaspora, is central to her inquiries into the relation between individual and collective identities and into the role gender plays in the construction of such entities.

scholarly journals O olhar etnográfico e a voz subalterna

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (15) ◽  
pp. 107-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Jorge de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Edward Said ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Gayatri Spivak

O artigo propõe, em primeiro lugar, uma revisão teórica da Antropologia, avaliando seu lugar no rol das teorias atuais das Ciências Humanas. Para tanto, constrói a metáfora das metamorfoses do olhar etnográfico, o que permite detectar momentos importantes da recepção e reprodução, em países periféricos como o Brasil, desse saber plasmado nos países centrais nos dias do colonialismo. Em seguida passa em revista as idéias de teóricos do pensamento pós-colonial e dos estudos subalternos, como Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak e Homi Bhabha. Num terceiro momento, discute as possibilidades de uma etnografia pós-colonial, voltada para a narração das vozes subalternas, o que aproxima a Antropologia da Literatura Comparada. Finalmente, ilustra essas discussões com a apresentação de uma narrativa extraordinária de uma quebradeira de côco de babaçu do Maranhão, texto que erijo como emblemático da condição contemporânea de desenraizamento e perplexidade a que estamos submetidos, tanto os nossos supostos nativos como os etnógrafos e intelectuais dos países periféricos.

The Last Muslim Intellectual

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamid Dabashi
Keyword(s):  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Aime Cesaire ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Intellectual Biography ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Urgent Task

The first comprehensive social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, this book explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923-69), arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his time and contends that he was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism, before the militant Islamism of the last half a century degenerated into sectarian politics and intellectual alienation from the world at large. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad’s life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a post-Islamist Liberation Theology. The Last Muslim Intellectual is about expanding the wide spectrum of anticolonial thinking beyond its established canonicity and adding a critical Muslim thinker to it is an urgent task, if the future of Muslim critical thinking is to be considered in liberated terms beyond the dead-end of its current sectarian predicament. A full social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a seminal Muslim public intellectual of the mid-20th century, this book places Al-e Ahmad’s writing and activities alongside other influential anticolonial thinkers of his time, including Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire and Edward Said. Chapters cover Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s intellectual and political life; his relationship with his wife, the novelist Simin Daneshvar; his essays; his fiction; his travel writing; his translations; and his legacy.

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