The role of a hermeneutics of contrapuntality in resisting resolutions of hybridity

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Creator (cre): Amini, Zuhra
Advisor (adv): Zalloua, Zahi
Department (dpt): Whitman College. Race and Ethnic Studies
Date
May 9, 2018
Graduation Year
2018
Abstract

Ana Lily Amirpour's first feature film A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night offers a hybrid aesthetic that reflects the cross-cultural experience of individuals situated in diasporic communities. How does one read this hybrid aesthetic form without flattening its scope? To tease out the implications of such a reading, I turn to Edward Said theory of contrapuntality which concerns how to read overlapping and contesting experiences.

Subject
Amirpour, Ana Lily -- A girl walks home alone at night
Said, Edward W. -- Contrapuntal analysis
Cross-cultural studies
Aesthetics
Nationalism
Multiculturalism
Culture -- Interpretation and construction
Cultural fusion
Language and culture
Academic theses
Whitman College 2018 -- Dissertation collection -- Race and Ethnic Studies
Genre
Theses
Extent
61 pages
Permanent URL
http://works.whitman.edu/390
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