scholarly journals THE SPACE OF TRANSCULTURATION IN THOMAS KING’S GREEN GRASS, RUNNING WATER

2021 ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Sanja Ignjatović ◽  
Natalija Stevanović
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Thomas King ◽  
Running Water ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Textual Space ◽  
White Settlers ◽  
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

This paper uses Thomas King’s novel Green Grass, Running Water (1994) to examine the contact between two cultures in Canada; the culture of the Indigenous people and the culture of the white settlers. Taking postcolonial studies as its framework, this paper relies on works written by critics such as Stephen Slemon, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and others, in its analysis of the transcultural space which Thomas King creates in his novel. The four mythical stories in the novel offer a fruitful ground upon which contact between the two cultural, social and political spaces can be analyzed. We hope that the research conducted in this paper can serve as an explanation of the nature of transculturation, and in the words of Bhabha (1994, 25), offer a textual “space of hybridity”. 

“An Indigenous Sovereignty of the Imagination”: Reenvisioning the Great Australian Novel in Alexis Wright's Carpenteria

Genre ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-219
Author(s):  
Liz Shek-Noble
Keyword(s):  
Third Space ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Women Novelists ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
White Settler ◽  
The One

Alexis Wright's second novel, Carpentaria, received critical acclaim upon its publication by Giramondo in 2006. As the recipient of the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2007, Carpentaria cemented Wright's position as the country's foremost Indigenous novelist. This article places Carpentaria within contemporary discussions of “big, ambitious novels” by contemporary women novelists by examining the ways the novel simultaneously invites and resists its inclusion into an established canon of “great Australian novels” (GANs). While critics have been quick to celebrate the formal innovations of Carpentaria as what makes it worthy of GAN status, the novel nevertheless opposes the integrationist and homogenizing myths that accompany canonization. Therefore, the article finds that Wright's vision of a future Australia involves moments of antagonism and mutual understanding between white settler and Indigenous communities. This article uses the work of Homi Bhabha to argue that Carpentaria demonstrates the emergence of a third space wherein negotiation between these two cultures produces knowledge that is “new, neither the one nor the other.” In so doing, Wright shows the resilience of Indigenous knowledge even as it is subject to transformation upon contact with contradictory ideological and epistemological frameworks.

Postkoloniale Theorie

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria do Mar Castro Varela ◽  
Nikita Dhawan
Keyword(s):  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Gayatri Spivak

Das Standardlehrbuch zu Postkolonialer Theorie in neuer Auflage. Kompakter Überblick über die Theorien von Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak und Homi Bhabha Diese Einführung erschließt das weite Feld postkolonialer Theoriebildung über eine kritische Debatte der Schriften der drei prominentesten postkolonialen Stimmen – Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak und Homi Bhabha. Die aktualisierte dritte Auflage unterzieht insbesondere die neuen Schriften Spivaks und Bhabhas einer kritischen Würdigung und erlaubt einen aktuellen Überblick über diese bedeutenden Theoriewerke. Die dritte Auflage setzt sich zugleich mit den gegenwärtigen Diskussionen um Globalisierung, Religion, Menschenrechte und Dekolonisierung auseinander und gibt einen Überblick über die aktuellen Debatten in den Postcolonial Studies. Das Standard-Lehrbuch zum Thema Postkoloniale Theorie gibt einen Überblick über die wichtigsten Theorien und Debatten in den Postcolonial Studies und bereitet diese systematisch für das Studium der Kulturwissenschaften auf.

scholarly journals Indigenous Identity through Hybridity and Humor: A Postcolonial Reading of Robert Merritt’s The Cake Man

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Parvaneh Ganjtalab Shad
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
Australian Society ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Gayatri Spivak ◽  
Central Argument

The major thrust in this research has been in the area of postcolonial studies. As one their primary missions, post-colonial works of art relate stories as seen by the oppressed and the colonized. Beginning with Edward Said’s Orientalism, postcolonial figures as diverse as Franz Fanon, Gayatri Spivak, and Homi Bhabha emerged and each targeted an aspect of postcolonial conditions. The present article was undertaken to trace postcolonial elements of “colonial negotiations,” and “hybridity” in an Aboriginal play by Robert Merritt entitled The Cake Man. The central argument of this article is that in its anticolonial stance, this play discusses issues of Aboriginal race and identity. To realize this argument, the play is studies with the background of Edward Said and Homi K. Bhabha’s theories. While these two figures are the leading theoreticians of the research, Aboriginal anticolonial strategies, like Aboriginal humor and figurative emasculation, are also pointed out. In fact, the novelty of the study is in its amalgamation of Western theories and Aboiginal strategies. All through the play, history as seen by the oppressed becomes the focal point, making it eligible to be called postcolonial works. Merritt’s The Cake Man, which is a well-known example of forced conversion, contains a very prominent manifestation of Said and Bhabha’s colonial negotiations. In addition, by creating an anticolonial character in the play, Merritt highlights and criticizes colonial Christianity, colonial otherization, and figurative emasculation of Aboriginal men in Australian society. All these issues, as the play leads the audience to believe, contribute to the realization that colonial discourse has the policy of obliterating Aboriginal traditions.

Postcolonialism

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahul Rao
Keyword(s):  
Edward Said ◽  
The Third ◽  
Western Power ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
The World ◽  
Resistance To Power ◽  
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

The chapter traces key moments in the development of postcolonialism, principally through an engagement with the work of Edward Said, Homi Bhabha, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Among its principal contributions are its accounts of orientalism as a strategy of Western power/knowledge in relation to the rest of the world and of hybridity as its consequence, besides a considerable investment in the fraught project of taking the subaltern seriously. The chapter outlines Marxist objections to postcolonialism, namely that its poststructuralist-influenced critique of essentialism both fails to offer a historically compelling account of anticolonial resistance and undermines possibilities for resistance to contemporary capitalism. The third section of the chapter suggests that debates between Marxism and poststructuralism are anticipated in the archives of anti-colonial liberation, in which nativist essentialism, universal humanism, and deconstruction are all visible as strategies of resistance to power. Postcolonialism today is a divided house, bearing the inheritance of anti-colonial thought in its dissonant entirety.

PRAGMATIC POTENTIAL OF AUTHOR’S AND TRANSFORMED PHRASEOLOGIES IN THE WORK OF CARLOS RUIZ ZAFÓN «THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN»

2021 ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
A. Yu. Bovsunivska A. Yu.
Keyword(s):  
Emotional State ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Unique Combination ◽  
Textual Space ◽  
Different Types ◽  
General Linguistic ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Pragmatic Aspects ◽  
Individual Style

The article is devoted to the study of pragmatic aspects of the use of phraseology in the textual space of Carlos Ruiz Safón’s novel «Prisoner of Heaven». One of the defining features of the individual style of this well-known modern Spanish writer is the metaphoricity and figuration of aristic expression, the saturation of the text with phraseological units that play a significant role in creating a pragmatic charge of the work of art. Along with general linguistic phraseological units, which include commonly-used vocabulary, the author uses dialectal and authorial phraseological units, which is a feature of his individual style. All three designated groups of phraseological units mostly reflect the negative psychophysical and emotional state of the characters. The author uses dialectal, individually-authorial and modified phraseological units, which is a feature of his individual style. It is determined that transformation is one of the most productive and most effective ways to update linguistic means in works of art. Author’s modification of FU leads to a change in the semantics and structure of expression, gives it a more expressive or emotional coloring. Transformed phraseology is limited to individual usage and is subject to the context of the work. Modified FUs in the Zafón’s artistic space acquire certain aesthetic and artistic qualities. Their modification is mainly to create the desired stylistic effect – to achieve emotional or expressive expression, which increases the reader’s interest, focuses on the content, issues of the work, as well as reveals the potential expressive potential of the Spanish language. In the transformed FUs, not just a new meaning is traced, but a combination of the well-known and the occasional. The unique combination of different types of phraseological units in the novel is considered a manifestation of individual style and makes a representation of the individually-authorial linguistic picture of the world more expressive.

What Use Is the Imagination?

PMLA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 129 (3) ◽  
pp. 512-517
Author(s):  
Jenny Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Aesthetic Education ◽  
Indian Education ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Asian Immigration ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

In death of a discipline, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak attributes the emergence of postcolonial studies to an increase in Asian immigration to the United States following Lyndon Johnson's 1965 reform of the Immigration Act (3). I would like to resituate her genealogy of the field in order to consider the “ab-use,” or “use from below,” of the European Enlightenment she asks us to cultivate in her most recent book, An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization. To perform this move, I will suggest that postcolonial studies began more than one hundred years before the legislation Spivak names in what has become a founding document for the field. I am referring to Thomas Babington Macaulay's well-known 1835 minute on Indian education, which proposed the creation of “a class of persons, Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals, and in intellect” (729). The class of Western-educated natives who would serve as liaisons between European colonizers and the millions of people they ruled came to be known in postcolonial studies as colonial subjects.

scholarly journals SIMILAR CONCEPT OF DJINN FOUND IN NOVEL BARTIMAEUS: THE AMULET OF SAMARKAND AND IN OLD MALAY LITERATURE: THE TALE OF TAMIM AD-DARI

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 001-012
Author(s):  
Hendro Kuncoro
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Literature ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Physical Description ◽  
Fantasy Fiction ◽  
Language Communication ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study ◽  
First Time

Bartimaeus:The Amulet of Samarkand is a fantasy fiction novel written by Jonathan Stroud, a British author. In this novel Stroud portrayed the Djinn as an enslaved demon from the perspective of a Djinn character named Bartimaeus. This study was conduct to compare the concept of Djinn found in the novel with the concept of Djinn in Indonesian culture because while reading it for the very first time, the writer felt similarity between those conceptions. Meanwhile, the concept of Djinn in Indonesian culture was formed one of them by the arrival of Islam which had an influence on the development of literature in Indonesia. Among them is the Hikayat/Tale of Tamim Ad-Dari. The conception of the Djinn that can be revealed from the comparison of these two literatures are in the form of aspects of the life of the Djinn, its physical description, its abilities, its diversity, its interaction with humans, and creatures related to the Djinn. A comparative literature is what this study concerns. By comparing two things we will comprehend the contents of these two things. This research is qualitative and descriptive. Literature is not only covers the story, but also express the culture and thought of the author that conveyed through the work he has made. Meanwhile culture is a beliefs, system of language, communication, and practices that share in a certain group of peoples which they use to define their identity. Therefore, it can be said that comparative literature facilitate the cross-cultural and interdisciplinary study of literature. And so, this study emphasis on the analysis of social and cultural production within the cultural differences. Hopefully, this study will have pedagogical benefits from the point of view of two cultures presented, which underlines social and cultural aspect of two cultures for student of literature and also for the further research in the field

scholarly journals Deception Toward British Muslims in Novel Home Fire (207) by Kamila Shamsie

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nesia Monika Al Nindita ◽  
Muhd. Al-Hafizh
Keyword(s):  
Edward Said ◽  
The Novel ◽  
British Government ◽  
Implied Author ◽  
British Muslims

This thesis is an analysis of a novel written by Kamila Shamsie, entitled Home Fire (2017). It explored the issue about strategies carried out by the British Government and ISIS (Islamic States of Iraq and Syria) in an effort to deceive British Muslims and to what extent the implied author contributed to identify the issue. This novel analysis related to the concept of Orientalism and Islamophobia by Edward Said. The uses of the theory is based on the interpretation of the text and context of the novel. The result of this analysis showed deceptions have done by two groups with different strategies. First, deception by British Government by manipulation and limited rights. Meanwhile, ISIS create propaganda.

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.

Forget Homi! Creolization, Omogéneia, and the Greek Diaspora

2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-88
Author(s):  
Charles Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Structural Model ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
American Case ◽  
Greek Americans ◽  
The Relationship

An early colonial model of creolization asked whether migrants to the New World underwent such drastic denaturing as to no longer be considered trustworthy compatriots. Homelands and their overseas colonies actively debated the moral meaning of change. In this essay, this structural model of creolization is applied to understand the relationship between the Greek state and its diaspora in the United States. That relationship has been governed by the ethnonationalist concept of omogéneia, which means “of the same génos or ancestry” but also “homogeneity.” In the twentieth century, omogeneís referred mainly to ethnic Greeks born and raised abroad and not possessing Greek citizenship. The idea of ethnic homogeneity became increasingly hard to sustain as Greek-Americans lost linguistic and cultural competence. The structural model of creolization guides the exploration of Greek homeland–diaspora negotiations of cultural and linguistic change in the American case. Greek-Americans are both ethnic Americans and diaspora Greeks at the same time. Although hybridity and creolization have been held up in postcolonial studies (e.g., Homi Bhabha) as productive of creative political agency, this study reveals a troubled dimension of creolization in the Greek diaspora. Omogéneia has implicitly become an othering term for those who are not linguistically and culturally competent according to homeland models and standards. A word that initially extended a welcome to ethnic Greeks left behind in Ottoman lands at independence in 1832 is now crumbling under the weight of its own contradictions.

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