Naslov
(Not) Sharing Culture(s) : Narrating ‘us’ and the ‘others’ within (and around) ‘our’ Culture
((Not) Sharing Culture(s ): Narrating ‘us’ and the ‘others’ within (and around) ‘our’ Culture)

Autori
Škvorc, Boris

Izvornik
Trans. Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften (1560-182X) 17 (2010), 5.3.; Section 53-Section 53

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Interculturalism, postcolonialism

Sažetak
Since the introduction of the concept of imagined communities in the sense of artificial entities representing a ‘deep, horizontal comradeship’ (Benedict Anderson, 1991), the concept of shared culture within limited and finite boundaries is regarded to have been a dominant cultural force in the nineteenth as well as the first half of the twentieth century. This situation of cultural separation and the forceful imposition of one’s own upon another or other culture(s) was dominant practice until the deconstruction of the concept of identity took place (Satya P. Mohanty, 2000), which is now understood as re/constructed rather than naturally ‘given’. In the development of this concept the new awareness of the hybrid character of culture(s) in various cultural studies projects is of special importance. Despite the insight that ‘even in modernism every culture was to the certain degree also a hybrid concept’ (owing the various influences coming from without as well as from the popular culture), the real awareness of hybridization emerged not earlier than with the postcolonial theory (Said, 1978 and Bhabha, 1994) which analyzed the penetration of –others – into the body of the stable cultural concept(s).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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