 Definitions:
Basic Concepts of
Identity and Immigrants' Cultural Identity
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Diaspora & Hybridity: e.g.
P. Gilroy's The Black Atlantic; Homi Bhabha
Related terms: in-betweenness, liminality, creolization, mestizaje.
- P. Gilroy's 'The Black
Atlantic': an 'international and transnational formation' which
'provides a means to re-examine the problems of nationality, location,
identity, and historical memory" (1993: ix; 16).
- S. Hall's "New Ethnicity":
the new black ethnicities visible in contemporary Britain are results
of the 'cut-and-mix' processes of 'cultural diaspora-ization' (Morley
& Chen eds. 1996: 446-447) (Cf. "Cultural Identity and Diaspora")
- Homi Bhabha: Transnational/Translational
Culture
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Issues:
- place
(home) and displacement (homelessness)
"It is here that the special
post-colonial crisis of identity comes into being; the concern with the
development or recovery of an effective identifying relationship between
self and place. A valid and active sense of self may have been eroded
by dislocation, resulting from migration, the experience
of enslavement, transportation, or 'voluntary' removal for indentured
labour. Or it may have been destroyed by cultural denigration, the
conscious and unconscious oppression of the indigenous personality and
culture by a supposedly superior racial or cultural model.
- Identity
and language: (More . . . )
"--one feature: the gap which
opens between the experience of place and the language available to describe
it
language--1. inadequate to
describe a new place, 2. systematically destroyed by enslavement, 3.
rendered unprivileged by the imposition of the language of a colonizing
power.
--linguistic alienation [silencing];
linguistic displacement of the pre-colonial language by English (Ashcroft 8-9 )
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