Comparative hybridities: Latin American intellectuals and postcolonialists

Aboul‐Ela, Hosam

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“…Decolonialization perspective is also brought into literary studies by making literary works produced in Latin American countries as their material objects to reveal decolonial discourses and strategies to dismantle colonial-Eurocentric influences as well as to construct literary knowledge that articulates the socio-cultural characteristics of Latin American societies | 120 ©2020, Jentera, 9 (2), 115-146 (Ramos & Daly, 2016). Even if there are those who share the issue of hybridity, the material object prioritizes the social basis of the cultural process (Aboul-Ela, 2004;Canclini, 2005).…”

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Cultural Hybridity and Its Complexity in Esmeralda Santiago’s Almost a Woman

Setiawan

2020

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Abstrak. Tulisan ini mendiskusikan hibriditas dalam novel Almost A Woman karya Esmeralda Santiago. Novel ini menceritakan permasalahan kultural yang dialami Negi, tokoh utama, sebagai imigran Puerto Rico di New York, di mana ia harus mengapropriasi budaya Amerika agar bisa diterima oleh masyarakat induk. Untuk membahas permasalahan tersebut, kami akan menggunakan teori poskolonial Bhabha. Analisis tekstual digunakan untuk menjelaskan data terpilih dengan cara pandang poskolonial tanpa mengabaikan keterkaitan kontekstualnya dengan dinamika imigrasi dan diaspora. Hasil kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa tokoh utama harus menjalankan strategi kultural berupa mimikri dan hibriditas agar bisa diterima di masyarakat induk dan bisa mendukung impian modernnya. Meskipun menikmati budaya Amerika secara apropriatif, ia masih berusaha untuk tidak melupakan budaya Puerto Rico. Dengan strategi ini subjek diasporik bisa menegosiasikan kepentingannya di tengah-tengah masyarakat induk dan kuasa budaya dominan, tanpa harus meninggalkan sepenuhnya budaya Puerto Rico. Abstract. This paper discusses hybridity in Esmeralda Santiago’s Almost A Woman. This novel tells about cultural problems experienced by Negi, the main character, as a Puerto Rican immigrant in New York, where she must appropriate American cultures in order to be accepted by the host community. To discuss this problem, we will apply Bhabha's postcolonial theory. Textual analysis is used to explain selected data from a postcolonial perspective without ignoring its contextual relationship with the dynamics of immigration and diaspora. The results of this study show that the main character must carry out a cultural strategy in the form of mimicry and hybridity in order to be accepted in the parent community and be able to support his modern dreams. Despite enjoying appropriately American culture, she still tries not to forget Puerto Rican cultures. With this strategy the diasporic subject can negotiate its interests in the midst of the host society and the dominant cultural power, without having to completely abandon Puerto Rican culture.

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Cultural Hybridity and Its Complexity in Esmeralda Santiago’s Almost a Woman

Setiawan

2020

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“…Many of these works are published in English. For instance, Palat (2000), Grosfoguel (2002), Aboul‐Ela (2004), Aina (2004), Hannoum (2004), Andreasson (2005), Sitas (2006), Alatas (2006), and Gandásegui (2006) have pondered the maldevelopment of social inquiries across the Asian, African, and Latin American continents and explore the needed renewal of varying intellectual spaces. Others work to cultivate serious dialogues to overcome orientalist practices in the academic professions and forge improved relations of knowledge inquiry in defiance against imperialism (Baber 2002; Foran 2004; Philipps and Aarons 2007; Samman and Al‐Zo’by 2008; Santos 2006; Venn 2002).…”

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Orientalism as Cultural Practices and the Production of Sociological Knowledge

Chua

2008

Sociology Compass

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Since the 1990s, sociologists and others have increasingly used the term orientalism to refer commonly to ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism, prejudicial stereotyping, and cultural misrepresentations of non‐‘western’ societies, particularly those influenced by Islamic knowledge and practices. I chart how theorist Edward Said has helped initiate the sociology of orientalism by emphasizing the relationship of orientalism as a set of cultural practice and discourse to modern empires and global imperialism. I discuss the prominent clusters of studies published in English in the sociology of orientalism: (i) cultural representations and (ii) cultural regulation and social‐identity formation. I argue that these studies have examined the ways orientalisms have deployed signifying practices of abstraction, difference, and desire in constructing problematic images and social relations. Furthermore, I contend that sociology as an intellectual endeavor still needs to confront seriously the issues raised by critics of orientalisms.

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Geopolitics and the Sight of the Nation: Elizabeth Bowen'sThe Last September

Wightman

2007

Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory

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Comparative hybridities: Latin American intellectuals and postcolonialists

Cited by 3 publications

References 10 publications

Cultural Hybridity and Its Complexity in Esmeralda Santiago’s Almost a Woman

Cultural Hybridity and Its Complexity in Esmeralda Santiago’s Almost a Woman

Orientalism as Cultural Practices and the Production of Sociological Knowledge

Geopolitics and the Sight of the Nation: Elizabeth Bowen'sThe Last September

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