Postcolonial Migration and Strategies of Resistance

ISBN-13: 9786202069946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 292 str.

Andrew Nyongesa; Kaigai Kimani; Justus Makokha

Opis

Host communities relegate immigrants at the margins of their societies because of cultural and racial differences. The immigrants select in the corpus of strategies at their disposal to resist discrimination and negotiate their existence in the host nations. This book explores the strategies of resistance that immigrants employ, namely, cultural hybridity and cultural fixity with reference to the migrant author, Safi Abdi. Hybrid immigrants create a third space where they synthesize attributes of the two essentialist groups to survive in a polarized setting but conservative immigrants stick to their mother cultures. The researcher analyses hybridity and fixity and evaluates their merits and demerits. Immigrants who vacillate between the two strategies end up with psychological anomalies.

O autorze

Andrew Nyongesa is a teacher of literature, novelist, poet and literary critic. Since 2012, he has nine published titles to his name: Worms in the Lounge (2012), The Water Cycle (2012), Rise of Rodedom (2013), Surmount the Essay World (2012), Dissecting Poetry (2013)The Endless Battle (2016), The English Catapult Series Papers 1, 2 and 3 (2017).