Transcultural Approach to (Self)identification: Quantum Physics
as a Strategy Challenging West Indian Placelessness and
Historylessness

k 2015

Transcultural Approach to (Self)identification: Quantum Physics as a Strategy Challenging West Indian Placelessness and Historylessness

KLÍMOVÁ, Zuzana

Základní údaje

Originální název

Transcultural Approach to (Self)identification: Quantum Physics as a Strategy Challenging West Indian Placelessness and Historylessness

Autoři

KLÍMOVÁ, Zuzana

Vydání

"Narratives of Displacement" International Interdisciplinary Conference, 2015

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

Písemnictví, masmedia, audiovize

Stát vydavatele

Polsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Organizační jednotka

Pedagogická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

displacement; narrative; interdisciplinary

Změněno: 23. 2. 2016 08:43, Mgr. Zuzana Kršková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

Historical and political development of the West Indies and its representation by European explorers and scholars has led to creation of a feeling of an absence of historical roots and strong affiliation to the space. Wilson Harris explores potentials of Guyanese landscape and what we might call a “landscape of memory” to revive the forgotten roots of various ethnic groups that came to form the current hybrid societies of West Indian nations. In his fiction, Harris transgresses boundaries of ethnic (self)identification creating a highly inclusive image of a universal community that is no longer defined by its violent past and an idea of erasure, rather than creation. Through basic principles of quantum physics, Harris builds bridges across historical periods as well as cultural traditions giving birth to a mutually permeable time-space. His novels are not constricted by traditional narrative structures of realism or Cartesian logic. This opens new possibilities for interpretation and allows transformation of traditional ways of perception built on the Enlightenment philosophies of the nineteenth century, that are often at the centre of culturally transmitted stereotypes leading to marginalization of groups based on an artificial evaluation of non-qualitative characteristics.

Citovat

KLÍMOVÁ, Zuzana. Transcultural Approach to (Self)identification: Quantum Physics as a Strategy Challenging West Indian Placelessness and Historylessness. In "Narratives of Displacement" International Interdisciplinary Conference. 2015.

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KLÍMOVÁ, Zuzana. Transcultural Approach to (Self)identification: Quantum Physics as a Strategy Challenging West Indian Placelessness and Historylessness. In \textit{''Narratives of Displacement'' International Interdisciplinary Conference}. 2015.

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