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In a recently published paper, Homi Bhabha reveals the tensions of the presenting cultural dichotomy that migrants must somehow reconcile to realize the potential of their new experience. He sees their emergent construct as, ‘partial culture’, a ‘contaminated yet connective tissue between cultures … bafflingly both alike and different.’1
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Kanitkar, H. (1999). A Creative Discourse: Gender Roles in Ethnic Minority Fiction. In: Barot, R., Bradley, H., Fenton, S. (eds) Ethnicity, Gender and Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508156_11
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