Strategic Hybridity: Some Pacific Takes on Postcolonial Theory

Sharrad, Paul

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“…It is a concern with the contextual relationship of the medium and the artist to its/his audience. The term "strategic hybridity," instead of insisting on binaries of colonial/postcolonial, authenticity/essentialist difference, thus better describes and analyzes such a historical process across disciplines (Sharrad 2007). McArthur observes that often key traditional narratives and talk stories can be converted and "adapted" into various modes of oral performance, such as a casual conversation, popular songs, or a political speech, to retain authoritative power in controlling the direction and content of the dialogue and negotiation or the form of expression (McArthur 2004: 62-68).…”

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De-Westernizing Film Studies

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2012

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Section: Yifen T Beusmentioning

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De-Westernizing Film Studies

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2012

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Hybridity and Identity Performance in Diasporic Context: An Autoethnographic Journey of the Self Across Cultures

Pindi

2017

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In this autoethnographic article, I am interested in theorizing about how hybridity illuminates my lived experience of identity performed across cultures, and more specifically in diasporic context, at the intersections of various facets of my selfhood: Black, female, postcolonial, African, bi-tribal, diasporic, immigrant, nonnative English Speaker, “French native speaker,” and so on. I use personal narrative as a locus of subjectivity to recount critical moments of my lived experience as a hybrid subject navigating at the borderlands of two cultural worldviews: Congolese and American. My cross-cultural journey reveals a series of challenging and triumphant episodes from my childhood back home to my life in the United States, a journey during which I have experienced both privilege and oppression. My process of identity construction results in the creation of a third space that celebrates difference through new ways of being, encompassing cultural values from both the United States and the Congo. This process is articulated through different ways of being/not being “American” and/or “African” and just being “different.”

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Strategic Hybridity: Some Pacific Takes on Postcolonial Theory

Cited by 2 publications

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De-Westernizing Film Studies

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Hybridity and Identity Performance in Diasporic Context: An Autoethnographic Journey of the Self Across Cultures

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