Cultural Liminality and the Construction of a Space-other in Salman Rushdie's “The Courter”

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Puchmüller, Andrea Bibiana
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2021
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The Courter, a story from the East, West collection (1994) by Anglo-Indian writer Salman Rushdie, problematizes the paradox of both divided and fused migrant identity. The story fictionalizes various cultural misunderstandings, clashes among individuals from different cultures, the stereotyping of migrants (particularly Indian)by the dominant culture, hybridity and negotiations of meanings. The objective of this work is to describe and characterize such cultural dynamics in The Courter through certain constructs proposed by the Indian critic Homi Bhabha, such as hybridity, mimicry, ambivalence and cultural difference. From the analysis carried out, we observe that hybridity, cultural contamination, mixture and difference appear in The Courter in a symbolic key through the game that is established with language. In addition, the migrant characters imitate the English culture and this translation is materialized through cultural intertexts that provide them with alternative frames of reference from which their experiences find meaning. English society is represented as being ordered on the basis of a homogeneous, dominant, host society that "accommodates" other cultures while it is the diasporic identities that destabilize the achieved socio-cultural order. The story then proposes a space-Other, a third, liminal space in which identities are recreated to give rise to something totally new and hybrid.
Fil: Puchmüller, Andrea Bibiana. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Luis; Argentina
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HYBRIDITY
DIFFERENCE
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Cultural Liminality and the Construction of a Space-other in Salman Rushdie's “The Courter”
title Cultural Liminality and the Construction of a Space-other in Salman Rushdie's “The Courter”
spellingShingle Cultural Liminality and the Construction of a Space-other in Salman Rushdie's “The Courter”
Puchmüller, Andrea Bibiana
THE COURTER
RUSHDIE
HYBRIDITY
DIFFERENCE
title_short Cultural Liminality and the Construction of a Space-other in Salman Rushdie's “The Courter”
title_full Cultural Liminality and the Construction of a Space-other in Salman Rushdie's “The Courter”
title_fullStr Cultural Liminality and the Construction of a Space-other in Salman Rushdie's “The Courter”
title_full_unstemmed Cultural Liminality and the Construction of a Space-other in Salman Rushdie's “The Courter”
title_sort Cultural Liminality and the Construction of a Space-other in Salman Rushdie's “The Courter”
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Puchmüller, Andrea Bibiana
author Puchmüller, Andrea Bibiana
author_facet Puchmüller, Andrea Bibiana
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv THE COURTER
RUSHDIE
HYBRIDITY
DIFFERENCE
topic THE COURTER
RUSHDIE
HYBRIDITY
DIFFERENCE
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6.2
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/6
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The Courter, a story from the East, West collection (1994) by Anglo-Indian writer Salman Rushdie, problematizes the paradox of both divided and fused migrant identity. The story fictionalizes various cultural misunderstandings, clashes among individuals from different cultures, the stereotyping of migrants (particularly Indian)by the dominant culture, hybridity and negotiations of meanings. The objective of this work is to describe and characterize such cultural dynamics in The Courter through certain constructs proposed by the Indian critic Homi Bhabha, such as hybridity, mimicry, ambivalence and cultural difference. From the analysis carried out, we observe that hybridity, cultural contamination, mixture and difference appear in The Courter in a symbolic key through the game that is established with language. In addition, the migrant characters imitate the English culture and this translation is materialized through cultural intertexts that provide them with alternative frames of reference from which their experiences find meaning. English society is represented as being ordered on the basis of a homogeneous, dominant, host society that "accommodates" other cultures while it is the diasporic identities that destabilize the achieved socio-cultural order. The story then proposes a space-Other, a third, liminal space in which identities are recreated to give rise to something totally new and hybrid.
Fil: Puchmüller, Andrea Bibiana. Universidad Nacional de San Luis. Facultad de Ciencias Humanas; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - San Luis; Argentina
description The Courter, a story from the East, West collection (1994) by Anglo-Indian writer Salman Rushdie, problematizes the paradox of both divided and fused migrant identity. The story fictionalizes various cultural misunderstandings, clashes among individuals from different cultures, the stereotyping of migrants (particularly Indian)by the dominant culture, hybridity and negotiations of meanings. The objective of this work is to describe and characterize such cultural dynamics in The Courter through certain constructs proposed by the Indian critic Homi Bhabha, such as hybridity, mimicry, ambivalence and cultural difference. From the analysis carried out, we observe that hybridity, cultural contamination, mixture and difference appear in The Courter in a symbolic key through the game that is established with language. In addition, the migrant characters imitate the English culture and this translation is materialized through cultural intertexts that provide them with alternative frames of reference from which their experiences find meaning. English society is represented as being ordered on the basis of a homogeneous, dominant, host society that "accommodates" other cultures while it is the diasporic identities that destabilize the achieved socio-cultural order. The story then proposes a space-Other, a third, liminal space in which identities are recreated to give rise to something totally new and hybrid.
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