Samuel Rodriguez. “Untitled”
John Rutherford’s interview with Homi K. Bhabha
Hybridity is a cross between two races/cultures. However, in Rutherford’s interview with Homi K. Bhabha, he refers to it as the ‘third space’. Not just two things mixing together, but the space between it and creating new things between these two cultures. “Hybridity to me is the ‘third space’ which enables other positions to emerge” (Bhabha, 211)
“Identification is a process of identifying with and through another object, an object of otherness,” (Bhabha,211). So we can identify with a culture but not with two. We cannot label and categories because then that would mean we have multiple identities and that is uncertain to just one, in which is what identifying means. Being organised into one. However, hybridity is an identification, the third space, in which we can identify in. It is the space in which we are who we are. Two different cultures can sit between this third space, however if mixed, they are incompatible. It is essentially like a singular space in which everyone can identify with, as it is their own.
Works Cited
Rutherford, Jonathan and Homi Bhabha. 1990. The Third Space. Interview with Homi Bhabha. In:Ders(Hg); Identity:Community, Culture, Difference. London: Lawrence and Wishard, 207,221.
Skeleton for Essay
IDEA – [Statement summarising what you’re gonna do]
– Thesis Statment
- INTRODUCTION (100-200 words)
– Key things that you’re going to talk about
– Examples
- HISTORICAL CONTEXT (300 words)
– Theoretical Key Concepts
– Background framework
- BODY (300 words each)
– 1st Point – Example
– 2nd Point – Example
– 3rd Point – Example
- CONCLUSION (100-200 words)
– Summarise
– linking back to thesis statement
– draw all points together to the thesis
– show what the connections are
– drawing conclusions
- MLA REFERENCING
– Every paragraph should have a reference (about 2-3, but 1 is all good)
– Synthesis
– Cross application referencing
A thesis statement:
- Makes the overall aim of your essay clear
- Identifies the big issues and connects it to your specific focus
- Appears either at the beginning or end of your intro
- Sets up the grounds for your three main points
For Question 1 (What to write about..)
- Include whose work you are looking at, what their work actually is – why this example is important to talk about
- mention hybridity or diaspora
… and the resulting hybridity in Samoan culture…(thesis statement) – everything you are going to talk about - pick out concepts of the images, representations what the work is trying to show, unpack
- loss of culture impacts.
Skeleton Draft Introduction
- Hybridity. Diaspora. Words that are associated with the colonisation of a country. Two cultures colliding. It is common in the present that people migrate from one place to another…
- Kerry Ann Lee is an Asian artist working within Aoteaora New Zealand whose works talks about her Cantonese Chinese Culture and living in New Zealand.
- This essay will discuss how Kerry Ann Lee’s Cantonese Chinese Culture and living in New Zealand is spoken through her work in response to social, political, cultural and historical experiences.
- The points that will be discussed in this essay are;
- ….and the resulting hybridity in Chinese Culture.
LILIAN LEE 