Hybridity and Ambivalence in Postcolonial Studies
Hybridity and Ambivalence in Postcolonial Studies
How idea of Hybridity can be connected with Ambivalence in
postcolonial studies?
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Terms under discussion are explained as under:Hybridity and Ambivalence in Postcolonial Studies
- Hybridity: Hybridity is new trans-cultural forms that arise from cross-cultural exchange. Hybridity may be social, linguistic, political, religious, etc. It is not essentially a peaceful mixture, for it may be contentious and disruptive in its experience
- Ambivalence: Ambivalence is the ambiguous way in which colonizer and colonized regard one another. The colonizer often regards the colonized as both inferior yet unusually other, while the colonized regards the colonizer as both enviable yet corrupts. In a situation of hybridity, this often yields a mixed sense of blessing and curse.
The term hybridity has become one of the most
repeated concepts in postcolonial cultural criticism. It is meant to exclude
the different forms of purity encompassed within existentialist theories.
Homi K Bhabha is the top up-to-date critic who has
tried to disclose the flaws inherent in colonial discourse in order to
highlight the colonizer’s ambivalence in respect to his place toward the
colonized Other. The meek occurrence of the colonized Other within the written
structure is enough sign of the ambivalence of the colonial writing, an
ambivalence that weakens its claim for total authority or unquestionable
authenticity.
Adapted into colonial discourse theory by Homi K
Bhabha, it describes the complex mix of attraction and dislike that
characterizes the relationship between colonizers and colonized. The example to
this context is that we always hate English society/ personal but some of us
get pleasure to shape themselves like English people. Wearing of smart jeans
and kurta by a young lady in Pakistani society is example of ambivalence while
hybridity with slight difference is at a basic level, hybridity refers to any mixing of
east and western culture. Within colonial and postcolonial literature, it most commonly refers to colonial
subjects from Asia or Africa who have found a balance between eastern and
western cultural qualities.
Brick lane by Monica Ali 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. It is characterized most strongly in the charisma of Chanu. Chanu in the
end shows development and is able to move on in spite of his failure. Brick
Lane has inspired a wide range of discussions about Monica Ali’s depiction of
the populations of the area from which the novel has taken its title. This
essay titles that integration is the key theme of the novel, and that the
desire to attain it is signified most powerfully in the character of Chanu.
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