New Ethnic Literatures
Stuart Hall
“New Ethnicities” (1989)
two moments
first moment
corrects
negative media representation
of
minorities
with
positive representation
“Cheering fictions”
(H. Kureishi)
Farrukh Dhondy
Come to Mecca
(1978)
“Two Kinda Truth”
“All across the nation/
Black man suffer aggravation/
Babylon face us with iration/
Man must reach some desperation./
It have to be iron, brothers y’all,
it have to be iron, my sisters”
Mr Wordsworth
“The poem is too much of a slogan;
to be poetry it has to have the
sound, not of propaganda but of,
well, how shall we put it, of truth”
“there’s two kinda truth”
binaries
second moment
refuses reversals
Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses
(1988)
No binary difference
(good vs evil)
shows
how reality
is constructed
No Asian-nnes
hybrids
H. Kureishi
The Buddha of Suburbia
(1988)
No Asian-nnes
/
no authentic ethnicity
identity is staged
second moment
offers no easy binaries
Z. Smith
White Teeth
(2000)
“This has been the century of
strangers, brown, yellow and white . . . It
is only this late in the day that you
can walk into a playground and find
Isaac Leung by the fish pond, Danny
Rahman in the football cage, Quang
O’Rourke bouncing a basketball . . .” (p.
281).
Monica Ali
Brick Lane
(2000)