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Postcolonial nomadism and the simulated self in images of fragmented identity
Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2010.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27159 Postcolonial nomadism and the simulated self in images of fragmented identity Dreyer, Elfriede estie@serfontein.co.za Serfontein, Estie Fragmented identity UCTD Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2010. Since the onset of postcolonialism in South Africa, cultural diversity was brought on by the political decline of cultural borders, mass-media infiltration, technological advancement and the disposition of postmodernism’s assemblage of eclectic characteristics. Within postmodern postcolonialism, cultural conditions such as diaspora, nomadism and cosmopolitanism contributed to a sense of global citizenship. As such, postcolonialism and its cultural fusion promoted a new multi-cultural, hybrid culture. In this mini-dissertation it is argued that identity is a reflection or a simulation of the social surroundings in which one exists. Just as the individual’s identity becomes a product of his/her surroundings, elements of the individual’s identity manifest within cultural spaces. Within this simulation in a hybrid and multi-cultural space, personal identity becomes a fragmented and splintered concept, which is a subconscious reaction to the diversities in the individual’s cultural surroundings; moreover, the diversity in culture also contributes to constructing a more adaptable identity from these fragments. A growing feeling of Ubuntu or tolerance for differences and oppositions that develops in multi-cultural space contributes to the argument that cultural spaces become diverse and hybrid in a postmodern eclectic era. To overcome the fragmentation in identity, the postcolonial individual unintentionally formulates a hybrid, or fusion in identity by relating to different aspects that one finds in one’s surroundings. Identity becomes a fluid concept and is ever-changing to adapt to the multiplicities of contemporary postcolonial culture. This fluidity in identity is sub-consciously achieved by adopting psychological thought processes like Nomadism and Proteanism. The process of formulation of a new eclectic and fluid identity becomes more important than the identity in itself. Therefore, the ability to have a fluid and adaptable identity becomes more important than exclusivity in one’s identity. The establishment of this fluidity in identity is not a conscious decision, but merely an autonomic process of metamorphosis that enables the postcolonial individual to maintain identity, even though his/her identity cannot be fixed. Visual Arts unrestricted 2013-09-07T10:50:30Z 2011-08-24 2013-09-07T10:50:30Z 2010-04-13 2010 2011-08-11 Dissertation Serfontein, E 2010, Postcolonial nomadism and the simulated self in images of fragmented identity, MA dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd < http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27159 > F11/629/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27159 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08112011-122533/ © 2010, University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Fragmented identity UCTD Postcolonial nomadism and the simulated self in images of fragmented identity |
| title | Postcolonial nomadism and the simulated self in images of fragmented identity |
| title_full | Postcolonial nomadism and the simulated self in images of fragmented identity |
| title_fullStr | Postcolonial nomadism and the simulated self in images of fragmented identity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Postcolonial nomadism and the simulated self in images of fragmented identity |
| title_short | Postcolonial nomadism and the simulated self in images of fragmented identity |
| title_sort | postcolonial nomadism and the simulated self in images of fragmented identity |
| topic | Fragmented identity UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27159 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08112011-122533/ |