“Ontological and Epistemological” Discourse of Cultural Identity: Making an Orientalist in V. S. Naipaul's Half a Life

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 1200
Author(s):  
Fazel Asadi Amjad ◽  
Ghamereddin Badirdast
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
The Impact

The impact of colonial educational system or colonial cultural discourse on the cultural identity of the colonized is a prominent theme of postcolonial studies. According to Said Orientalism as a discourse recognizes an "ontological and epistemological" distinction between the East and the West. Consequently, for Said anyone who thinks, works and acts based on the existence of such a distinction is an orientalist. This paper argues that V. S. Naipaul’s Half a life illustrates the workings of this imaginary distinction that European cultural discourse finds between the Orient and the Occident on the formation of the cultural identity of the colonized people as they become subject to colonial cultural discourse. In Half a Life we observe Willie, the anti-hero of the novel, gradually losing his faith in the ingredients of his own cultural identity replacing them with the material served in the menu of colonial educational system to adopt himself with the requirements of being a colonial individual living on scholarship in the metropolitan London.

scholarly journals (Non)Places of Bangalore: Where the East Meets the West in Bharati Mukherjee’s Miss New India

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Izabella Kimak
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
South Asian American ◽  
Primary Location ◽  
Spatial Locations ◽  
The Impact

This essay constitutes an attempt at reading Bharati Mukherjee’s 2011 novel, Miss New India, through the prism of spatial locations depicted in it. Unlike many of the texts in the late South Asian American author’s oeuvre, which depict migration from the East to the West, Miss New India is located exclusively within South Asia. This notwithstanding, the novel focuses on the impact the West used to and continues to exert on the East. I would like to argue that through her depictions of places and non-places of Bangalore-the novel’s primary location-Mukherjee points to the spatial interconnectedness of the East and the West as well as to the temporal interconnectedness of the colonial past and postcolonial, late-capitalist present.

THE HERO OF THE NOVEL BY I. MALYSHEV “NOMAKH” AND THE YEGOR LETOV’S POETICS

2021 ◽  
pp. 92-101
Author(s):  
Denis L. Karpov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
Cultural Discourse ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
Difficult Situation ◽  
Literary Life ◽  
Civil War Era

Contemporary literature is being formed in a difficult situation of polyphony of the modern consumer culture. Mainstream discourses are mixed with subcultural ones, the authors are influenced not only by the literary tradition itself, but also, for example, by rock culture. Thus, the countercultural, subcultural experience, which until recently was considered as peripheral, is actively being introduced into the socio-cultural discourse of modern Russia through the assimilation by authors claiming a place in the center of the country’s literary life. The novel by I. Malyshev “Nomakh” may be considered as an example of such influence. It became a finalist of the literary prize contest “Big Book” in 2017. The novel is clearly influenced by countercultural ideology, in particular by E. Letov, one of the most popular and reputable representatives of the West Siberian counterculture. At the same time, there are no direct references or quotations from the poetry of the Omsk musician in the novel. Rather, one can see some stylistic likenesses, similar figurative complexes. The reception of a historical character from the civil war era is based on the learned principles of poetics and Letov’s worldview. In addition, adopting the intellectual experience of the counterculture, I. Malyshev’s novel not only relays a certain ideology, but also, with the help of artistic means, recreates or completes the images of its hero, historical character, and cultural heroes, which he focuses on.

scholarly journals SPIRITUAL HIBRIDITY OF NATIVE AMERICAN IN LOUIS EDRICH’S THE ROUND HOUSE: POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Achmad Faqih ◽  
Muh Arif Rokhman
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Third Space ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
Cultural Survival ◽  
Common Practices ◽  
Data Source

Louis Edrich is a contemporary Native American writer who writes The Round House. The novel portrays the complexities of individual and cultural identity, focuses on the exigencies of marginalization and cultural survival, which happened to Native Americans, as well as concerns about spirituality and the hybrid form of religion, known as spiritual hybridity. Spiritual hybridity appears to be common practices for Native Americans after the arrival of European and the massive spreading of Christianity. This study is conducted to probe the representation of the spiritual hybridity of Native Americans. The novel is examined using Bhabha’s theory on Hybridity. The dialogue and narration in the form of words, phrases, and sentences in the novel are treated as a data source representing the spiritual hybridity of Native Americans. The analysis results in the representation of the spiritual hybridity of Native Americans,which can be considered as their defense against Christian hegemony. Besides, the representation of spiritual hybridity, as a form of third space, occurs due to a mixture of religious beliefs committed by Native Americans after experiencing religious oppression or discrimination. Spiritual hybridity can be concluded as a new pattern of the struggle and resistance of Native Americans to fight for their tradition. Nowadays, spiritual hybridity for Native American remains a form of resistance towards Christian hegemony.

scholarly journals Negotiation of Cultural Identities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2780-2782
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
Nigerian Literature ◽  
Global World

The Nigerian literature illuminates on the experiences of migration which makes a person oscillate between two different places. The novel describes the formative process of Ifelmu and Obinze who fall in love in Nigeria and migrate to the west ,and they ultimately reunite in Nigeria after fifteen long years .The article explores the negotiation of cultural identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel the Americanah (2013). The Protagonist and other minor characters questions identity, sense of belonging and they try being as positive models through a negative stereotypical society. The characters undergo a redemptive process through migration as they encounter problem with Race, Language and Hair which culturally connects them to the roots. The article attempts to showcase how culture gets fragmented in the global world where the notion of identity becomes an ever changing factor. As the characters undergo changes because of the convoluted identity they struggle to thrive in their hardships. The article also attempts to focus on how negative attitudes and approaches reminds them of their past and develops a positive attitude enabling them to create an identity for themselves in a diasporic society

scholarly journals Introduction

HISTOREIN ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgos Plakotos ◽  
Athina Syriatou
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Press ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Foucauldian Analysis ◽  
The Impact

Three historiographical articles, an essay on the press in nineteenth-century Finland and an analysis of a historical novel comprise this issue of Historein. Two of them analyse the historiography of the Greek interwar period as it concerns the economy and notions of national cultural identity, respectively. Another article discusses the impact of digital archiving for the historical profession, contemplating on its responsiveness to the demand for "instant history". The field of digital humanities also informs the next article, which, through the example of the Finnish press, seeks to make the concept of the virtual relevant in historical research. The final article gives a Foucauldian analysis of the notion of parrhesia for two historical personalities as they emerge from a well-known nineteenth-century historical novel, examining the multiple levels of historicity of the personas of the novel as well as the intentions of the critical views of the writer of his contemporary historical conflicts.

The “Homecoming” of the First Wave Diaspora and Its Cultural Legacy

Slavic Review ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 513-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greta N. Slobin
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
The West ◽  
Critical Juncture ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Postcommunist Transformation

The return of the first wave émigrés' cultural legacy at a critical juncture of postcommunist transformation in 1990s Russia presents a case study of a dialogue between the diaspora and the homeland. The belated encounter of shared national traditions reveals a history of competing cultural monopolies, incongruous resemblances, and matching nostalgias. Contemporary diaspora and postcolonial studies in the west have addressed such key issues as diaspora's self-definition in relation to the homeland, its strategies of resistance and accommodation, and transnational networks. The first part of the article presents a brief survey of Russia Abroad, its internal discourse concerning its legacy and the dream of return after losif Stalin's death. The second part considers the emerging field of diaspora studies in Russia, focusing on the dynamics of its reception, appropriation, and domestication. The range of partisan responses to the émigré legacy is considered a touchstone for the current debates concerning Russian national and cultural identity.

scholarly journals Murakami on the Shore: beyond the dialogue between Japan and the West

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. e51791
Author(s):  
Michele Eduarda Brasil de Sá
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
Final Draft ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
East And West ◽  
East West ◽  
The Way

 The novel Kafka on the Shore is one of the most enigmatic works of contemporary writer Haruki Murakami. Since its very release, critics and scholars have been sharing their impressions and interpretations on various aspects of the book, one of them being the abundant references to Western elements (myths, songs, writers, icons and so forth). The present paper is the final draft of the postdoctoral research ‘Murakami on the shore: the dialogue with the West in the construction of the novel’, developed from July 2015 to June 2016. It aims at rethinking (as well as questioning) the way the study of the relation between Japan and the West can be addressed in the novel. The research, conducted as a bibliographical investigation, used key concepts like cultural identity (Hall, 2006) and border-blurring (Auestad, 2008). It defies the tendency of studying cosmopolitan authors like Haruki Murakami from the perspective of East-West duality, and defends that such analysis ought to consider East and West as complementary, almost inextricable, not regarding them as opposite or impermeable, and never as a limitation to the author himself.

scholarly journals The corridor of uncertainty: Media, cricket and West Indian identity

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas-Wade Brunton
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
West Indian ◽  
The West ◽  
Indian Identity ◽  
Great Hope ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Tremendous Impact

When C.L.R. James published Beyond a Boundary in 1963 – forever attaching the sport of cricket; its rituals, its rhythms and its customs to the construction of a West Indian identity – it was a time of great hope, the early dawn of the postcolonial era and concurrent with the rise of constructions of culture being framed as the sum of everyday lived experience. The cricket-playing Caribbean (the West Indies) was a different place and cricket was a different game. The intervening half century has seen the monetization of sport, the globalization of the media and, most significantly, paradigmatic shifts in the presentation of the sport of cricket in step with a continued decline in the fortunes of the West Indies cricket team. These shifts have had tremendous impact on the region as the West Indies, the geographical outliers in the cricket-playing world, have become further isolated as sub-par performances have lessened the team’s value in this age of commodification. In cricketing terms, the corridor of uncertainty in which West Indies cricket finds itself is indicative of the region’s inability to rise to the demands of globalization. Given the dominant assumption in postcolonial studies that in all the ex-colonies and dominions the imperial past strongly informs the present – through analysis of mediated sport in the region and the impact of the monetization of cricket on West Indian players and consequently on the regional team, this article seeks to bring to an end the conflation of cricket and West Indian identity and, further, questions the relevance of such an identity in the absence of a West Indian nation.

Experimental study of thermohydraulic characteristics and irreversibility analysis of novel axial corrugated tube with spring tape inserts

2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 30901
Author(s):  
Suvanjan Bhattacharyya ◽  
Debraj Sarkar ◽  
Ulavathi Shettar Mahabaleshwar ◽  
Manoj K. Soni ◽  
M. Mohanraj
Keyword(s):  
Heat Transfer ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Thermal Performance ◽  
Working Fluid ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Heat Exchanger Tube ◽  
Heat Transfer Augmentation ◽  
Corrugated Tube ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Exchanger Tube

The current study experimentally investigates the heat transfer augmentation on the novel axial corrugated heat exchanger tube in which the spring tape is introduced. Air (Pr = 0.707) is used as a working fluid. In order to augment the thermohydraulic performance, a corrugated tube with inserts is offered. The experimental study is further extended by varying the important parameters like spring ratio (y = 1.5, 2.0, 2.5) and Reynolds number (Re = 10 000–52 000). The angular pitch between the two neighboring corrugations and the angle of the corrugation is kept constant through the experiments at β = 1200 and α = 600 respectively, while two different corrugations heights (h) are analyzed. While increasing the corrugation height and decreasing the spring ratio, the impact of the swirling effect improves the thermal performance of the system. The maximum thermal performance is obtained when the corrugation height is h = 0.2 and spring ratio y = 1.5. Eventually, correlations for predicting friction factor (f) and Nusselt number (Nu) are developed.

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