Essays about: "cultural hybridity"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 21 essays containing the words cultural hybridity.

  1. 16. Diaspora and Cultural Hybridity : A Study of the First and Second Generation Immigrants in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Rose Michaelin M. Anyanwu; [2017]
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  3. 17. Transcultural Zone: Hybridity and Frontier Theory in Callahan’s Wynema: A Child of the Forest.

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för kultur och lärande

    Author : Caroline Browé; [2015]
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    Abstract : The terms “Indian” and “Native American” do not only signify the indigenous peoples of America, but also includes stereotypical features and descriptions that are created by the Euro-Americans. The aim of this essay is to investigates what Indian identity is in Alice Callahan’s novel Wynema: A Child of the Forest (1981), and whether it promotes Indian stereotype or not. READ MORE

  4. 18. Shattered Dreams : An essay analyzing Chanu's assimilation process in Brick Lane

    University essay from Sektionen för lärande och miljö

    Author : Caroline Harmon; [2014]
    Keywords : Post colonial theory; double consciousness; unhomeliness; cultural hybridity; mimicry;

    Abstract : Brick Lane has stimulated a wide range of debates regarding Monica Ali's portrayal of the inhabitants of the area from which the novel has taken its title. This essay claims that assimilation is the key theme of the novel, and that the desire to achieve it is represented most strongly in the character of Chanu. READ MORE

  5. 19. El mero chingón : Mexicanness at large

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Valeria Villegas; [2013]
    Keywords : drugs film latsploitation corridos Mexicanness narcotelenovelas melodrama;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the discourse of Mexicanness and its relation to the moving image, pointing to the intellectual discussion it has been subject to since the beginning of the twentieth century. Further, it takes narcoculture as a relevant and recent phenomenon that has the capacity of confronting and reformulating Mexicanness by virtue of its hybridity. READ MORE

  6. 20. Spaces of in-between ‘Hybridity’, self-identification and agency of change in personal narratives of non-belonging

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Genusvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Daphne Arbouz; [2011]
    Keywords : Hybridity; Identity; Nationalism; Body-politics; Transraciality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Daphne Arbouz, Spaces of in-between, ‘hybridity’ self-identification and agency of change in personal narratives of non-belonging, Master’s thesis 30p. Lund University, 2011. Narratives of non-belonging and identity formations surrounding the concept of ‘hybridity’ in autobiographic material are discussed and interpreted. READ MORE