Grass is singing - Group 1 by Laura Penney https://padlet.com/laurapenney/13ipke4peao3zkmt Made with serendipity en-us 2020-11-18 11:11:21 UTC 2024-12-18 05:58:46 UTC hello@padlet.com ‘Cultural authority is unheimlich, for it to be distinctive, significantly, influential and identifiable, it has to be translated, dissemi`nated, differentiated, intertextual, interracial’ laurapenney https://padlet.com/laurapenney/13ipke4peao3zkmt/wish/936090459 Bhaba is a scholar and cultural theorist. His notion of cultural hybridity connotes the idea that world cultures do not appear fully formed and distinct, but are in fact malleable entities endlessly being shaped. 
It assesses the relationship between the coloniser and the colonised
Linguistic examples of cultural authority include pidgin English and creole languages]]> 2020-11-18 11:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/laurapenney/13ipke4peao3zkmt/wish/936090459 The idea of settling elsewhere creates a strange unhomely quality in the novel, where the domestic space for Mary has invested in a site of home is also fraught with difficulty, difference and strangeness. Central to the underlying themes of the novel is the tension between the white women and her black servant. The discomfort around this proximity and confusion around the relationship. aiyesht https://padlet.com/laurapenney/13ipke4peao3zkmt/wish/936122435 2020-11-18 11:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/laurapenney/13ipke4peao3zkmt/wish/936122435 georginavcooper https://padlet.com/laurapenney/13ipke4peao3zkmt/wish/936132245 Domestic spaces are sites of emotional and cultural investment, but are also prey to difference and strangeness.]]> 2020-11-18 11:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/laurapenney/13ipke4peao3zkmt/wish/936132245 laurapenney https://padlet.com/laurapenney/13ipke4peao3zkmt/wish/936152810 Lessing presents  notions of social and political realism  in the context of Bhaba's work. 
 The process of Hybridity is well narrated by Doris Lessing in the relation between Moses and Mary. She explains how the black and the white coming together generate hybrid generation. ]]> 2020-11-18 11:41:41 UTC https://padlet.com/laurapenney/13ipke4peao3zkmt/wish/936152810 https://padlet.com/laurapenney/13ipke4peao3zkmt/wish/936156992 The South African societal, cultural norm is extremely distinctive, suppressing individualism and pinning it against the nature of other subcultures. It’s divisiveness is seen throughout the novel, pinning small subjugated communities against each other ‘like sleepy little towns scattered like raisins,” unable to find common ground being divided between cosmopolitan cities and the mass ghetto slums being developed uncaringly outside of the metropolitan environments.
Therefore, anyform of new ideology or culture has to be assessed rigorously by the confounds of the environment it attempts to join. As  it attempts to maintain its own ideals and customs demonstrating a duality in nature and culture.

]]> 2020-11-18 11:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/laurapenney/13ipke4peao3zkmt/wish/936156992 https://padlet.com/laurapenney/13ipke4peao3zkmt/wish/936170580 Using Homi Bhabha’s concept of unhomeliness, it’s evident within the ‘the grass is shining’ that even though both Mary and Dick live together there isn’t really a sense of conform and homeliness within the novel. The only reason Mary wanted to build a relationship with Dick was only after overhearing her friends laugh at her as sexless and immature, and so when Dick Turner asks her she consents. ]]> 2020-11-18 11:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/laurapenney/13ipke4peao3zkmt/wish/936170580