{"id":15992,"date":"2011-09-02T19:01:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T19:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15992"},"modified":"2014-09-21T16:15:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T16:15:52","slug":"historicizing-hybridity-and-the-politics-of-location-three-early-colonial-indian-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15992","title":{"rendered":"Historicizing Hybridity and the Politics of Location: Three Early Colonial Indian Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/07256860601082996\" target=\"_blank\">Historicizing Hybridity and the Politics of Location: Three Early Colonial Indian Narratives<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/cjis20\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Intercultural Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/cjis20\/28\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 28, Issue 1<\/a> (2007)<br \/>\npages 143-155<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/07256860601082996\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/07256860601082996<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uws.edu.au\/centre_for_cultural_research\/ccr\/people\/researchers\/dr_adrian_carton2\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Carton<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nCentre for Cultural Research<br \/>\n<em>University of Western Sydney, Australia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_Mughals\" target=\"_blank\">White Mughals<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vikram_Seth\" target=\"_blank\">Vikram Seth<\/a>, novels, historical blockbusters and more nuanced anthropological and postcolonial critiques have exposed the fiction of fixed notions of \u201crace\u201d through sensitive understandings of the liminal space of the \u201cinter-racial\u201d relationship and the \u201cmixed-race\u201d experience. In an era where the textual and cultural production of hybridity has become a new form of cultural capital, articulations of racial \u201cinbetween-ness\u201d have also become somewhat universalised and romanticised. While acknowledging the radical potential of these new paradigms of transnational slippage and m\u00e9tissage as an affront to the old narratives of racial certainty, this article challenges the universalization of the term \u201cmixed-race\u201d in the context of colonial India, both ontologically and historically. By historicising cultural difference according to the social syntax that gives it meaning, it asks whether the term \u201cmixed race\u201d has political relevance in all colonial spaces and across time and culture or whether it needs to be interrogated as an historical product in itself. Finallly, this article turns to the politics of location in a global context to illustrate the limits of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Homi_K._Bhabha\" target=\"_blank\">Homi Bhabha&#8217;s<\/a> notion of the \u201cthird space\u201d by moving beyond celebratory and static notions of the \u201cmixed-race\u201d experience.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/07256860601082996\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historicizing Hybridity and the Politics of Location: Three Early Colonial Indian Narratives Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (2007) pages 143-155 DOI: 10.1080\/07256860601082996 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia From White Mughals to Vikram Seth, novels, historical blockbusters and more nuanced anthropological and postcolonial critiques have exposed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1196,8],"tags":[643,1351,1021],"class_list":["post-15992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-adrian-carton","tag-india","tag-journal-of-intercultural-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}