An Appreciation of Cultural Hybridity in Sigogo’s
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An Appreciation of Cultural Hybridity in Sigogo’s Kunjalo
An Appreciation of Cultural Hybridity in Sigogo’s Kunjalo

Author(s): Sindile Dlodlo
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Sociolinguistics, Theory of Literature
Published by: European Scientific Institute
Keywords: Hybridity; culture; negotiation

Summary/Abstract: This paper appreciates the notion of cultural hybridity in the Ndebele novel, the case in point being Sigogo’s novel, Kunjalo. The major focus is on the novelist’s vision that the mixing of cultures should be understood as a connection of different entities rather than an attempt to homogenise. Using hybridity as a guiding framework, the paper analyses the events in the novel Kunjalo and concludes that hybridity does not necessarily call for the negative stereotypes which view cultural transfers and exchange as pervasion. Rather, cultural hybridity allows for the continuous process of borrowing and lending between cultures.

  • Issue Year: 4/2017
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 86-94
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English