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Cultural Hybridity and Fixity: Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures

Cultural Hybridity and Fixity: Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures

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Literary CriticismFiction AnthologiesImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0797495479
ISBN13: 9780797495470
Publisher: Mwanaka Media and Publishing
Published: Aug 16 2018
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Immigrants who travel and settle in foreign countries face challenges due to cultural differences or even deliberate segregation by dominant groups. In their attempt to negotiate their existence, some decide to stick to the culture of their mother nations and some stand in the middle, and blend some aspects of their mother culture and the new culture. Although immigrants who remain closer to their own cultures are easily spotted and relegated, they are assigned a place on the identity continuum, whereas immigrants who choose to stand in the middle run the danger of being neither this nor that, neither here nor there, and can undergo severe internal fragmentation. In this book, Cultural Hybridity and Fixity: Strategies of Resistance in Migration Literatures, Andrew Nyongesa delves into these two strategies of resistance and analyzes the merits and demerits of each with reference to Safi Abdi's fiction.

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