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T1 Celebrating Cultural Hybridity Through Storytelling: Othello as a Borderlands Character in Caryl Phillips’ The Nature of Blood
A1 Nadal-Ruiz, Alejandro
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB 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. 
SN 2531-1654
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/50813
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/50813
LA eng
NO ES Review. Spanish Journal of English Studies; No 42 (2021) pags. 199-215
DS UVaDOC
RD 19-nov-2024