For this essay, I form another scape drawing directly from Appadurai’s declared scape suffixes existing within the contextual world in relation to the flows of human interaction to their social condition. Identityscape, which would place into a subset overlapping in both “ethnoscape” and “mediascape”, perceives, “shifting the world in which we live” through a pusedo-environment interlinking similar cultural psyches across geographic borders (Appadurai, 297). I am convinced this metaphysical construct of mutual transnational identity sprouts from the effects of geographic, societal authorities such as post-colonialism and national exile. Comparing and contrasting this to the cases involving the integration of Bollywood film in Nigeria and the
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Exiled from the United States to his ‘home’ country of El Salvador, the story of José Huezo Soriano, also known as Weasel, comes to example. When he is deported as a criminal to the Latin country, he reports feeling, “like a tourist. A permanent one,” and that he didn’t, “know nothing about El Salvador” having lived in America for twenty years (Radio Diaries). The psyche of these deportees becomes immobile from the harsh experience of deterritorialization, their nationalistic identity fixed to that aligned to American while undergoing a disjuncture of space in El Salvador. The search for an identity outside of their forced reterritorialization in the foreign country is forever sought after, never quite acclimating to their new environment in what the United States government constitutes as the immigrant’s ‘home’ country. Demonstrating this, author Elana Zilberg accounts for interactions between fellow extradites in El Salvador includes the constant question, “Where you from, homes?” to which is a geographic reference to the United States locale, not their current foreign environment (761). This furthers the association by identifying first within the nationalistic psyche of American, creating a friction between their transcended metaphysical reaction across borders and …show more content…
First, the reinvention of an identity outside of the ‘western’ philosophies enables flow and connection between culturally relevant nations. This transnationalism allows a certain mobility, a transposed ideology aiding a resurgence of national identity and the place in the world which it takes. Contrastingly, the forced removal of an individual from the strongly related national identity fortifies a violent friction and disconnection from a secure locale in the global environment. Once removed from either colonization or the association of home, the reinvention of the identity begins, be it journeyed through positive or negative paths. Through medial and ethnological landscapes, identity is, “navigated by agents who both experience and constitute larger formations, in part by their own sense of what these landscapes offer.” (Appadurai, 296). And ‘agents’ take the form of the characters on both a social and individual scales, making their way into the global
Exiled from the United States to his ‘home’ country of El Salvador, the story of José Huezo Soriano, also known as Weasel, comes to example. When he is deported as a criminal to the Latin country, he reports feeling, “like a tourist. A permanent one,” and that he didn’t, “know nothing about El Salvador” having lived in America for twenty years (Radio Diaries). The psyche of these deportees becomes immobile from the harsh experience of deterritorialization, their nationalistic identity fixed to that aligned to American while undergoing a disjuncture of space in El Salvador. The search for an identity outside of their forced reterritorialization in the foreign country is forever sought after, never quite acclimating to their new environment in what the United States government constitutes as the immigrant’s ‘home’ country. Demonstrating this, author Elana Zilberg accounts for interactions between fellow extradites in El Salvador includes the constant question, “Where you from, homes?” to which is a geographic reference to the United States locale, not their current foreign environment (761). This furthers the association by identifying first within the nationalistic psyche of American, creating a friction between their transcended metaphysical reaction across borders and …show more content…
First, the reinvention of an identity outside of the ‘western’ philosophies enables flow and connection between culturally relevant nations. This transnationalism allows a certain mobility, a transposed ideology aiding a resurgence of national identity and the place in the world which it takes. Contrastingly, the forced removal of an individual from the strongly related national identity fortifies a violent friction and disconnection from a secure locale in the global environment. Once removed from either colonization or the association of home, the reinvention of the identity begins, be it journeyed through positive or negative paths. Through medial and ethnological landscapes, identity is, “navigated by agents who both experience and constitute larger formations, in part by their own sense of what these landscapes offer.” (Appadurai, 296). And ‘agents’ take the form of the characters on both a social and individual scales, making their way into the global