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Celebrating Cultural Hybridity Through Storytelling: Othello as a Borderlands Character in Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood

ES Review, 2021
This paper provides a new approach to Othello’s story in Caryl Phillips’ polyphonic novel The Nature of Blood (1997). The fictional Othello finds himself at the crossroads between different cultures and is struggling to define his identity. Making use of
Alejandro Nadal-Ruiz
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Cultural Hybridity in Indonesian Contemporary Cinema: A Postcolonial Study on the Film Bumi Manusia

Insaniyat: Journal of Islam and Humanities
Colonialism has profoundly engulfed the cultural, social, and political aspects of Indonesian society. Indigenous people have responded to its legacy by movements, negotiating their identity, and engaging in cultural appropriation.
Yusri Fajar
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Hybridity and the Space of the Border in the Writing of Norma Elia Cantú

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2001
The creative and scholarly writing of Norma Elia Cantú focuses centrally on the tensions of borders that are eroding yet firmly in place. Cantú's border pivots on the geographic space in which Mexico and the United States physically intersect, yet she ...
Ellen McCracken
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Indian Female Identities, between Hindu Patriarchy and Western Missionary Models in Anita Desai’s Fasting, Feasting and Clear Light of Day [PDF]

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2015
The paper compares and contrasts several of Anita Desai’s female characters who experience the transcendent urge to restructure their familiar cultural models along Western parameters. Whether engaged in migration or experiencing a static existence in
Elena Stoican
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The issue of expression hybridity in the translation process

Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2019
The study focuses on the perception of hybridity as a reality in the literary and translation space. It identifies the hybridity of authorship (inspiration by another author, the blurring of boundaries, the overlapping of the identities of the author ...
Anita Huťková
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Breastfeeding: a nature-culture hybrid

Jornal de Pediatria, 2004
To contribute to the creation of a new theoretical synthesis about the relationship between the biological and social dimensions of breastfeeding, categorizing it as a nature-nurture hybrid.The methodological approach of the present article was based on the qualitative health research frame, and data were analyzed on the basis of dialectic-hermeneutic ...
João Aprígio Guerra, de Almeida, Franz Reis, Novak   +1 more
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The newfound relationship between extrachromosomal DNAs and excised signal circles

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Extrachromosomal DNAs (ecDNAs) contribute to the progression of many human cancers. In addition, circular DNA by‐products of V(D)J recombination, excised signal circles (ESCs), have roles in cancer progression but have largely been overlooked. In this Review, we explore the roles of ecDNAs and ESCs in cancer development, and highlight why these ...
Dylan Casey, Zeqian Gao, Joan Boyes
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The Russian Diaspora on China: A Case of Cultural Hybridity. Translation from Russian

Журнал Фронтирных Исследований
The authors analyse the process of cultural hybridisation within the Russian diaspora in China. Cultural hybridisation refers to the intersection or blending of cultures, where new conditions, properties, principles, and other existential norms emerge ...
Alexander Yu. Meshcheryakov, Oleg K. Antropov   +1 more
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Contemporary Portrayals of Women by Women: Comparing India and Ghana [PDF]

Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies, 2012
A comparative analysis of the representation of the exiled female body in the Ghanaian Amma Darko’s Faceless, and the Indian Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things reveals similar brutal means of control over women’s sexual freedom, without erasing ...
Florence D'Souza
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The hybridity of Indies culture in Indonesian novel translation into French

Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature, 2023
Postcolonial novels incorporating hybrid culture elements into the story present new problems for translation. The hybrid elements that appear in the source text can be maintained or removed in the translation process, depending on the strategy adopted ...
Arwatrisi Ediani, Sajarwa
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