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IT303: Week 3 Quando Dio ballava il tango

IT303: Week 3 Quando Dio ballava il tango. Borderlands. Anzaldúa: mestiza consciousness. What are the main ideas of her essay and what does she mean by mestiza consciousness ? What is her view of identity? Why does she link homosexuals to the idea of mestiza consciousness ?

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IT303: Week 3 Quando Dio ballava il tango

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  1. IT303: Week 3 Quando Dio ballava il tango Borderlands

  2. Anzaldúa: mestiza consciousness • What are the main ideas of her essay and what does she mean by mestiza consciousness? • What is her view of identity? • Why does she link homosexuals to the idea of mestiza consciousness? • Can you make any connections between her theories and Pariani’s novel? • How does she use language and different styles in her writing? What effects does this create?

  3. Borderlands • A place where cultures overlap and collide ‘The coming together of two self-consistent but habitually incompatible frames of reference causes un choque, a cultural collision’. ‘Cradled in one culture, sandwiched between two cultures, straddling all three cultures and their value systems, la mestiza undergoes a struggle of flesh, an inner war’

  4. Identities Are multiple, hybrid, plural, flexible, dynamic, always shifting. ‘in a state of perpetual transition’ ‘Rigidity means death’.

  5. Mestiza consciousness • Avoids concepts of purity • Embraces ambiguity and sustains contradiction • Transcends dualities (on which Western thought is founded) • Breaks down rigid categories • Intertwines cultures; ‘juggles cultures’ ‘It is not enough to stand on the opposite river bank’. ‘We will have to leave the opposite bank, the split between the two mortal combatants somehow healed so that we are on both shores at one’.

  6. Homi Bhabha: Third Space and hybridity • Focuses on thresholds, borders • Celebrates in-between spaces, margins • Where cultures meet and clash • (Colonial) authority challenged • Challenges binary divisions and oppositions • Unsettles stable identities • new hybrid identities created – not just a merging of two cultures • a site of tension

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