Celebrating Cultural Hybridity Through Storytelling: Othello as a Borderlands Character in Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood

This paper provides a new approach to Othello’s story in Caryl Phillips’ polyphonic novel The Nature of Blood (1997). The fictional Othello finds himself at the crossroads between different cultures and is struggling to define his identity. Making use of Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands theory as expo...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal:	Alejandro Nadal-Ruiz
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Universidad de Valladolid 2021
Materias:	Caryl Phillips Gloria Anzaldúa borderlands cultural hybridity storytelling English language PE1-3729 English literature PR1-9680
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/b190de7963264243847e37c6eadf6ffb
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:b190de7963264243847e37c6eadf6ffb
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b190de7963264243847e37c6eadf6ffb2021-11-11T12:48:05ZCelebrating Cultural Hybridity Through Storytelling: Othello as a Borderlands Character in Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood10.24197/ersjes.42.2021.199-2152531-16462531-1654https://doaj.org/article/b190de7963264243847e37c6eadf6ffb2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://revistas.uva.es/index.php/esreview/article/view/4808https://doaj.org/toc/2531-1646https://doaj.org/toc/2531-1654 This paper provides a new approach to Othello’s story in Caryl Phillips’ polyphonic novel The Nature of Blood (1997). The fictional Othello finds himself at the crossroads between different cultures and is struggling to define his identity. Making use of Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands theory as exposed in her work Borderlands/La Frontera (1987), this study explores Phillips’ Othello as a borderlands character. Accordingly, it is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate that, as a borderlands character-narrator, Othello succeeds in bringing together the two hitherto conflicting cultures that he knows (Africa and Venice) through storytelling. Indeed, his narrative proves a transborder testimony that contributes to creating a debate forum where cultural hybridity is celebrated.um where cultural hybridity is celebrated. Alejandro Nadal-RuizUniversidad de ValladolidarticleCaryl PhillipsGloria Anzaldúaborderlandscultural hybriditystorytellingEnglish languagePE1-3729English literaturePR1-9680ENES Review, Iss 42 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	Caryl Phillips Gloria Anzaldúa borderlands cultural hybridity storytelling English language PE1-3729 English literature PR1-9680
spellingShingle	Caryl Phillips Gloria Anzaldúa borderlands cultural hybridity storytelling English language PE1-3729 English literature PR1-9680 Alejandro Nadal-Ruiz Celebrating Cultural Hybridity Through Storytelling: Othello as a Borderlands Character in Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood
description	This paper provides a new approach to Othello’s story in Caryl Phillips’ polyphonic novel The Nature of Blood (1997). The fictional Othello finds himself at the crossroads between different cultures and is struggling to define his identity. Making use of Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands theory as exposed in her work Borderlands/La Frontera (1987), this study explores Phillips’ Othello as a borderlands character. Accordingly, it is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate that, as a borderlands character-narrator, Othello succeeds in bringing together the two hitherto conflicting cultures that he knows (Africa and Venice) through storytelling. Indeed, his narrative proves a transborder testimony that contributes to creating a debate forum where cultural hybridity is celebrated.um where cultural hybridity is celebrated.
format	article
author	Alejandro Nadal-Ruiz
author_facet	Alejandro Nadal-Ruiz
author_sort	Alejandro Nadal-Ruiz
title	Celebrating Cultural Hybridity Through Storytelling: Othello as a Borderlands Character in Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood
title_short	Celebrating Cultural Hybridity Through Storytelling: Othello as a Borderlands Character in Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood
title_full	Celebrating Cultural Hybridity Through Storytelling: Othello as a Borderlands Character in Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood
title_fullStr	Celebrating Cultural Hybridity Through Storytelling: Othello as a Borderlands Character in Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood
title_full_unstemmed	Celebrating Cultural Hybridity Through Storytelling: Othello as a Borderlands Character in Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood
title_sort	celebrating cultural hybridity through storytelling: othello as a borderlands character in caryl phillips’ the nature of blood
publisher	Universidad de Valladolid
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/b190de7963264243847e37c6eadf6ffb
work_keys_str_mv	AT alejandronadalruiz celebratingculturalhybriditythroughstorytellingothelloasaborderlandscharacterincarylphillipsthenatureofblood
_version_	1718439066294288384

Celebrating Cultural Hybridity Through Storytelling: Othello as a Borderlands Character in Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood

Ejemplares similares