{"id":26587,"date":"2013-08-27T04:01:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T04:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26587"},"modified":"2013-08-27T04:02:52","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T04:02:52","slug":"%e2%80%9ci-want-to-be-nothing%e2%80%9d-challenging-notions-of-culture-race-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26587","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Want to be Nothing\u201d. Challenging Notions of Culture, Race and Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI Want to be Nothing\u201d. Challenging Notions of Culture, Race and Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Studia Humanistyczne AGH<\/a>
\nVolume 10, Issue 2<\/a> (2011)
\npages 75-83<\/p>\n

Agata Lubowicka<\/a><\/strong>
\nUniversity of Gdansk, Poland<\/em><\/p>\n

This article tackles the issue of \u201chyphenated identities\u201d in Heidi W. Durrow\u2019s<\/a> novel The Girl Who Fell from the Sky<\/a><\/em> (2010), whose main topic is growing up as a girl of mixed race in a dominant black culture. This article examines how Rachel Morse, the main character in the novel, challenges racism and the essentialist notion of identity. Firstly, Stuart Hall<\/a> and Paul Gilroy\u2019s<\/a> approaches to that issue are introduced and discussed. Then in relation to their theories an interpretation of Durrow\u2019s\u00a0fictional character is delivered. As the third part of the article, elements of Danish culture appearing in Durrow\u2019s are presented and analyzed as well as the novel\u2019s explicit intertextual references to Nella Larsen\u2019s<\/a> authorship, another mulatto<\/a> woman writer of half-Danish origin. In accordance with Gilory\u2019s theory, the article\u2019s aim is to show that Rachel\u2019s identity is born in the process of self-reflection where Danishness becomes her \u2018crossroads\u2019 and thus to confirm that such phenomena as culture, ethnicity and identity are constantly constructed and altered.<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI Want to be Nothing\u201d. Challenging Notions of Culture, Race and Identity Studia Humanistyczne AGH Volume 10, Issue 2 (2011) pages 75-83 Agata Lubowicka University of Gdansk, Poland This article tackles the issue of \u201chyphenated identities\u201d in Heidi W. Durrow\u2019s novel The Girl Who Fell from the Sky (2010), whose main topic is growing up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8],"tags":[12790,65,64,87,1592,2966,12789],"class_list":["post-26587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-agata-lubowicka","tag-heidi-durrow","tag-heidi-w-durrow","tag-nella-larsen","tag-paul-gilroy","tag-stuart-hall","tag-studia-humanistyczne-agh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26587","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=26587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}