Howls from a thicket of blood

Article Abstract:

Author Ariel Dorfman regards himself as the embodiment of the current interest in globalization and hybridization. He was born in Argentina, brought up until the age of 12 in New York, NY, expelled to Chile and then sent into exile from Chile in 1973. He welcomes the fact that everybody is now living in a double world, but believes that he tends to be intellectually abstract about these developments. His best-known works, 'Death and the Maiden' and 'Widows,' are dominated by the compulsion to narrate the horrors of totalitarian regimes.

Authors, Writers, Interview, Dorfman, Ariel

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Hybrid Bhabha

Article Abstract:

University of Chicago humanities professor, Homi Bhaba, argues that recognizing that another culture has rights is no simple issue, and can involve dealing with the culture as a group, obscuring differences within the culture. He is interested in processes that occur when cultures meet, a process of hybridization, which involves negotiations of power and the emergence of knowledge. He sees hybridity as ambivalent and causing anxiety, and involving a drive to create an identity and feeling of agency.

Social aspects, Ethnic relations, Culture conflict, Cultural conflict, Culture diffusion, Colonization

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Losing a language to repair the past

Article Abstract:

The decline in the use of the Afrikaans language for teaching in South African universities is examined, with focus on the association of the language with the system of apartheid that used to operate in South Africa.

Universities and colleges, South Africa, Language and languages, Afrikaners

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