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The intercultural Bildungsroman as a platform for a hybrid feminist epistemology in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy (1990): The (im)possibility of a unified feminist movement
2019 •
Giorgia Scribellito
This article analyzes Lucy (1990) by Jamaica Kincaid in terms of the intercultural Bildungsroman basing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s characterization of the coming-of-age genre. Focusing on the relationship between the characters, it highlights the tension between contrasting feminist views. Seeking to emphasize how an intercultural vision contributes innovative perspectives on society, this paper argues that the eponymous protagonist of the novel has to find a way to reconcile the American culture with her Antiguan culture in her own feminist and postcolonial terms -an intercultural perspective. On the one hand, the relationship between Lucy and Mariah—her employer—reflects a tension between second-wave and third-wave feminism, which, the heroine eventually reconciles opening up the path for a unified vision of the feminist movement. Lucy’s postcolonial vision, in particular, is similar to that articulated by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. On the other hand, the strain between Lucy and her mo...
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Interrogating the Ambivalence of Self-Fashioning and Redefining the Immigrant Identity in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine
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Suchismita Banerjee, Ph.D..
Rejecting the paralysis of exilic consciousness, Bharati Mukherjee embraces the cultural diaspora of America to create a transformed identity of her own. Her psychological evolution is reflected in her fictional character, Jasmine, who, like her, subverts and participates in the hegemonic notion of immigrant identity and tries to carve out a different selfhood by participating in the violent process of decolonising the mind. However, the novel subverts this emancipatory rhetoric by creating ambiguous sites of identity performance where the protagonist is both complicit and resistant to the dominant culture. Analysis of these ambiguous sites in the novel would require us to consider the rhetoric of American “exceptionalism” which makes the United States a unique, liberal, “redeemer” nation, a place where individuals could carve out their identities through hard work, agency and determination. The aim of this paper is to apply the above rhetoric to explore the ambivalence of identity ...
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Cultural Identity Construction in the Novel 'East Wind: West Wind' by Pearl S. Buck
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This study analyzed the cultural identity in the novel East Wind: West Wind written by Pearl S. Buck by using postcolonial theory proposed by Bhabha (2007). It aimed to identify the cultural identity, that consists of stereotypes, mimicry, ambivalence, and hybridity, and how it was experienced by the main character in the novel. This study used qualitative method with descriptive approach. The writer collected the data by reading the novel and highlighting the data from the narrations and utterances that were appropriate to the problem of study. The result of this study showed that there are cultural identity construction in the life of Kwei-lan’s, the main character in the novel, which trapped her into identity confusion. Two cultures, namely traditional Chinese and Western culture, cause Kwei-lan’s confusion of her identity. Kwei-lan's attempts to survive from this situation by imitating the modern lifestyle, such as habits, appearances, and parental actions. This cultural shi...
Feminist Review
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Self-fashioning and Personal Portability in Nora Webster
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In this article, we will analyze Nora Webster (2014) by ColmTóibín. This novel tells the story of the protagonist’s journey towardsrestructuring her life with her children after the death of her husband.We propose to examine how the transformations experienced by Noraare influenced by the historical-social context in which she finds herselfand how this affects her family unit and her identity. We understand thatthis work can be analyzed from the perspective of “portability”. This termwas first employed by Costello-Sullivan (2012) to discuss the culturalportability existing in Brooklyn (2011), another novel by Tóibín.
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