Traversing Diacritical Space
Negotiating and Narrating Parsi Nationness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9003238 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rashna B Singh (Colorado College, Colorado Springs, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 29-47 |
| Publication date | 2008-05-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9894 • E-ISSN: 1741-6442 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021989408091231 |
| OpenAlex | W2132703771 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The Parsis have been typecast as India's most Anglicized community and as colonial collaborators. Anglicization was, however, a perfomative identity that manifested itself differently in public and in private space. Viewed through the lens of Homi Bhabha's theories of hybridity, and read through fiction by Parsi authors, the Anglicization of the Parsis can be seen not as uncomplicated mimicry, but as negotiation of national and cultural identity and space in terms of historical and geographical contingency. To see Parsi ambivalences as an unequivocal Anglicization is to presuppose a univalent and totalizing national identity from which one group or another strays, rather than to recognize the negotiated and contingent nature of what Bhabha terms “nationness”. It is to posit a departure from an originary culture rather than to recognize the temporal and transitional nature of culture itself
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Contingency · Epistemology · Hybridity · Identity (music · Linguistics · Literature · Negotiation · Postcolonial literature · Social science · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism · Translation Studies and Practices
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2019 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |