Investigating Identity, Ambivalence, Hybridity: A Bhabhaian Reading of J. M. Coetzee's "Foe" and "Disgrace"

Autor/in	Mostafaee, Jalal
Titel	Investigating Identity, Ambivalence, Hybridity: A Bhabhaian Reading of J. M. Coetzee's "Foe" and "Disgrace"
Quelle	In: Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 7 (2016) 6, S.163-167 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2203-4714
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Racial Segregation; Reading; Stereotypes; Foreign Policy; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Rassentrennung; Leseprozess; Lesen; Klischee; Außenpolitik; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	The present paper seeks to investigate J.M. Coetzee's "Foe" and "Disgrace" in terms of Homi K. Bhabha's concept of Identities/Subjectivities. Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most important contemporary figure in postcolonial studies; he argues that ambivalence is existed at the site of colonial dominance. He argues that ambivalence is existed at the site of colonial dominance. The colonizer forcefully asserts his superiority to the colonized, but the feeling of fear is created concerning identity, which is imposed on them. The paper also seeks on the notion of hybridity which indicates that the practices of colonial authority is intermingling other texts and discourses which results in a hybridization that facilitates colonial domination. Bhabha's reading of Lacan accords well with the ambivalence he traces in various writers. It is what Lacan calls the mirror stage that is central to Bhabha's reading. Bhabha believes that ''the mirror stage encapsulates what happens in colonial discourse's stereotyping productions: the mirror stage is at least a good model for the colonial situation''. Bhabha suggests that like'' the mirror phase the fullness of the stereotype--its image as identity--is always threatened by lack.'' A telling and recurring idea in Coetzee's fiction is that the force of the colonizer is formative of the identity of the colonized, something to be embraced and this paper aims to investigate this closely by using Bhabha's concepts. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01