Hybridity Bhabha, Homi (1994):´Signs taken for Wonders. Questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817´
Anastasia Mitronatsiou
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Agenda 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Introduction /Video Homiµs Bhabha Short Bio Biography ÄThe lo location of Culture³ Hybr Hybrid idit ity y, Ambiv Ambival alen ence ce,, Cons Conseq eque uenc nces es of hybr hybrid idit ity y Present day examples Questions
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Homi K.Bhabha
born: 1949 Mu Mumbai, India
Profess fesso or of En Englis lish and American Literature and Language, and the Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University
Infl Influe uenc nce ed by: by: Der Derrida rida,, Lac Lacan an , Foucault, Said
has has bee been n cr critic iticiz ized ed for for usin using g indecipherable jargon and dense prose
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Bhabhas position in ³T he he Location of Culture, Culture, London Routledge´
Takes up the subjects position of the colonized Takes Talks T alks about traditions tradi tions of the th e colonized Respects the divanism goes back back to Hegel Hegel Disdigues Disdigues himself himself from the project project of Said
Bhabha
suggests that that the passages portray portray the "English book" (the (the bible, namely) as an emblem of colonial rule, desire, and discipline. Bhabha's s central central argume argument nt is that the English English book book -- a fetishiz fetishized ed sign that that Bhabha' glorifies the epistemological centrality and permanence of European dominance - paradoxically is an emblem of "colonial ambivalence" ambivalence " that suggests the weakness of colonial discourse discourse and its susceptability to "mimetic" subversion. subversion.
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Ambivalence: 1.
of the the col colon oniz izer er towa toward rd the the col colon oniz ized ed
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the hi historical amb ambiivalence
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of the colonized : T hey hey believe that this book is a gift from the god! hey do not accept as the English Bible. But as an authority that T hey mediating by their own values which transforms the document. here is the attitude of ³ T h T here This is Ambivalence´(Bhabha has a term for it: Hybridity). Ambivalence is the double consciousness of the colonized covering between submission
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Definition: Hybridity The hybridity, hybridity, according accordi ng to Homi K. Bhabha (1994), a key feature of ( of (post-) colonial identity . He argues that the nature of colonial identity is not monolithic, but ambiguous or hybrid and to the interaction, even asymmetrical between the culture of the colonizer and the colonized. To quote Tom Nairn Nair n hybridity means "accepting the irrevocable mixing as a starting point rather than as a problem." Hybridity is a risky notion. It comes without guarantees. Rather than a single idea or a unitary concept, hybridity is an association of ideas, concepts, and themes that at once reinforce reinforc e and contradict each other.-Marwan other.- Marwan M. Kraidy
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Consequences of hybridity-Present day examples
Colonial domination has unintended effects because the dominated groups appropriated colonial ideas and concepts and transformed them according to their culture. Consequences of Hybridity: geographical, r eduction of political allegiance, decline of policy based on the cultural dimension. Present day examples: the ambivalence of the veil Iran-France-Spain-Turkey
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Thank
you for your attention!
Vielen Dank für eure Aufmerksamkeit!
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