The road to a transcultural America: the case of American Muslim girls
This article was published in the Journal of Intercultural Studies [© 2016 Published by Routledge] and the definite version is available at http://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2016.1163532 The Article's website is at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2016.1163532
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10361-114892019-03-06T05:09:17Z The road to a transcultural America: the case of American Muslim girls Kabir, Nahid Afrose Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University Bangladeshi Acculturation Biculturalism Muslim This article was published in the Journal of Intercultural Studies [© 2016 Published by Routledge] and the definite version is available at http://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2016.1163532 The Article's website is at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2016.1163532 Fernando Ortiz acknowledged the pain of colonisation and the uprooting of slaves from Africa from the sixteenth century onwards. Later, people from diverse backgrounds such as Jews, Anglo-Saxons and Chinese migrated to the New World. Ortiz observed that initially migrants were faced with the problem of disadjustment and readjustment, of acculturation, deculturation and neoculturation – in a word, of transculturation. Ortiz’s concept of transculturation provides a useful framework for examining the cross-cultural adaptation and hybridisation that usually takes place when two or more cultures meet. Against the transcultural conceptual framework offered by Ortiz, this paper examines the life stories of three American Muslim girls of Bangladeshi heritage, and evaluates their experiences as reflecting transcultural processes. It examines how their transculturality or hybridity through the ‘contact zone’, and global and local interactions, helped them to assert their identity and sense of belonging. It recognises the tensions and the positive outcomes of their transculturation. In particular, this paper mobilises Pratt’s, Kraidy’s and Pereira-Ares’s interpretation of transculturation. Published 2019-03-03T10:59:45Z 2019-03-03T10:59:45Z 2016-05-03 Article 07256868 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/11489 http://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2016.1163532 en https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2016.1163532 BRAC University |
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This article was published in the Journal of Intercultural Studies [© 2016 Published by Routledge] and the definite version is available at http://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2016.1163532 The Article's website is at https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07256868.2016.1163532 |
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