Who is afraid of hybridity? Re-visiting Bhaji on the Beach and perspectives on multiculturalism in Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19004901 |
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| Authors | Iulia Rășcanu (0000-0001-7271-6305, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 9-22 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-05 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Asian Diaspora (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1943-8184 • E-ISSN: 1943-8192 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19438192.2020.1773136 |
| OpenAlex | W3033508783 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This article explores the concept of hybridity and its relations with several analytical categories – ‘home’, space (private/public), ‘essences’, and the Bakhtin concept of heteroglossia – as they occur in Gurinder Chadha’s Bhaji on the Beach. Although perceived as a director who idealises hybridity and multiculturalism due to the happy endings of her comedies, the variety of characters and their interactions portrayed in this film requires a close look at the circumstances that bring them together in a multi-layered space. Space, either enclosed or in the open, private or public, is a constant element in the film grammar and contributes to defining hybridity and the British multicultural society of the 1990s. Interconnected with space, cultural essences (British-ness, English-ness, Indian-ness) are also analysed here
Aesthetics · Heteroglossia · Hybridity · Linguistics · Media studies · Multiculturalism · Public space · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies · Translation Studies and Practices
| Highly cited | No |
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