Re-narrating Globalization: Hybridity and Resistance in Amores Perros, Santitos and El Jardín del Edén

This paper explores the articulation of resistance to neoliberal globalization in AlejandroGonzález Iñárritu’s Amores Perros, Alejandro Springall’s Santitos and Maria Novaro’s ElJardín del Edén. I argue that this resistance is enunciated within what Homi Bhabha terms‘Third Space’, the in-between spa...

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Main Author: Brent Smith
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Language:English
Published: AesthetixMS: Aesthetics Media Services 2010-08-01
Series:Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
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Online Access:http://rupkatha.com/V2/n3/RenarratingGlobalization.pdf
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description This paper explores the articulation of resistance to neoliberal globalization in AlejandroGonzález Iñárritu’s Amores Perros, Alejandro Springall’s Santitos and Maria Novaro’s ElJardín del Edén. I argue that this resistance is enunciated within what Homi Bhabha terms‘Third Space’, the in-between space of cultural translation and negotiation where notions of anessential national identity are destroyed and a contingent and indeterminate hybrid identity isconstructed. Speaking from this hybrid space, these films employ Western cinematicconventions to construct narratives of the disjunctive experience of postcolonial time andspace that disrupt the dominant temporality and imaginative geography of Western grandnarratives of historical progress and global economic development, while at the same timedeterritorializing the space and time of national imagining.
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spelling doaj.art-01667b1762984fe2aeaf8325cc07f9962022-12-21T20:55:46ZengAesthetixMS: Aesthetics Media ServicesRupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities0975-29352010-08-0123268281Re-narrating Globalization: Hybridity and Resistance in Amores Perros, Santitos and El Jardín del EdénBrent SmithThis paper explores the articulation of resistance to neoliberal globalization in AlejandroGonzález Iñárritu’s Amores Perros, Alejandro Springall’s Santitos and Maria Novaro’s ElJardín del Edén. I argue that this resistance is enunciated within what Homi Bhabha terms‘Third Space’, the in-between space of cultural translation and negotiation where notions of anessential national identity are destroyed and a contingent and indeterminate hybrid identity isconstructed. Speaking from this hybrid space, these films employ Western cinematicconventions to construct narratives of the disjunctive experience of postcolonial time andspace that disrupt the dominant temporality and imaginative geography of Western grandnarratives of historical progress and global economic development, while at the same timedeterritorializing the space and time of national imagining.http://rupkatha.com/V2/n3/RenarratingGlobalization.pdfresistanceglobalizationpostcolonialAmores PerrosSantitosEl Jardín del Edén
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Re-narrating Globalization: Hybridity and Resistance in Amores Perros, Santitos and El Jardín del Edén
Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities
resistance
globalization
postcolonial
Amores Perros
Santitos
El Jardín del Edén
title Re-narrating Globalization: Hybridity and Resistance in Amores Perros, Santitos and El Jardín del Edén
title_full Re-narrating Globalization: Hybridity and Resistance in Amores Perros, Santitos and El Jardín del Edén
title_fullStr Re-narrating Globalization: Hybridity and Resistance in Amores Perros, Santitos and El Jardín del Edén
title_full_unstemmed Re-narrating Globalization: Hybridity and Resistance in Amores Perros, Santitos and El Jardín del Edén
title_short Re-narrating Globalization: Hybridity and Resistance in Amores Perros, Santitos and El Jardín del Edén
title_sort re narrating globalization hybridity and resistance in amores perros santitos and el jardin del eden
topic resistance
globalization
postcolonial
Amores Perros
Santitos
El Jardín del Edén
url http://rupkatha.com/V2/n3/RenarratingGlobalization.pdf
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