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Kádár Judit (Ez az e-mail-cím a szpemrobotok elleni védelem alatt áll. Megtekintéséhez engedélyeznie kell a JavaScript használatát.)

MIXED HERITAGE IDENTITY RE-FORMULATION IN NORTH AMERICAN CULTURE

Mixed heritage used to be taken as a stigma, that is based on the problematic encounter of binary worlds, “conflicting bloods,” to use Paula Gunn Allen’s term. However, recent US and Canadian literature and visual art have facilitated the renegotiation, reconceptualization and reflection on an increasingly homogeneous sense of the self that refuses to be taken as socially irregular. This reflects major change affecting both countries and societies tremendously, i.e. the general condition of mixed blood being the new normal. I invite scholars of all disciplines to have an interdisciplinary discussion of this trend and how it is reflected in arts, sociology, psychology and identity politics. We are to explore tensions of openness and closure in identity formulation, the exciting arena of interpersonal communications and psychology, and how hybridity is turned into an enriching cultural experience making the individual unique and valuable.

Keywords: hybridity, métissage, crossbloods, new indigene, cultural appropriation, ethnic choice, internalized boundary zones, post-Indian, social condition, transculturies, Nuevomexicanos, Métis, liminality

Anna Kérchy (Ez az e-mail-cím a szpemrobotok elleni védelem alatt áll. Megtekintéséhez engedélyeznie kell a JavaScript használatát.)

IMAGE/TEXT/BODY (SZTE, IEAS)

The papers presented in the panel offer iconotextual analyses of literature in English with the aim to explore creative interactions between words and images while focusing on the embodied stakes of intermedial dynamics. Contributors rely on seminal theoretical notions of iconographers, visual theorists, picturebook scholars, and adaptation experts (eg. Mitchell, Bal, Louvel, Nikolajeva, Hutcheon et al.) to study a variety of topics including pictures in books (illustrated novels), books on pictures (ekphrasis), books turned into (moving) images (cinematic adaptations), visual images fused with verbal narrative (graphic novels, comics), and bodies used like the pages of a book (corporeal inscriptions).