Thanks, you elucidated Hybridity commendably, I discovered your videos while I was working on life of Raja Masood Reza Khan , great psychoanalyst who worked with Anna Freud and she complimented him as the only psychoanalyst who understood Freud adequately. He was genius belonged to Chawkwal, wrote books on psychoanalysis. Since then listening you regularly. I uploaded three videos on Raja Masood Reza in Urdu.
Very helpful insight into the concept of hybridity especially on Robert Young and Feng Shui's contributions. My thesis needed this lecture. Thank you very much, Dr.
@@masoodraja Thank you, this is very helpful in itself! I'm touching on Bhabha for my dissertation and had the same question that you have answered. Love your videos
Thank you Dr. Masood! This is one of the most complex concepts in literary theory for me. Your video helped a lot. I think one of the finest examples of this concept is found in an obscure short story by Khuswant Singh, Karma where a native Indian is so flawless in his imitation of the mannerisms of the “superior” culture only to be treated with derision and contempt by a couple of mercenary policemen working in the colonial outpost. They could hear that the person they abruptly threw out sounded “too English”. They couldn’t believe their ears and thought they are hearing him that way because they are drunk. In other words the physiognomy didn’t match the what they heard. I was trying to explain the short story in terms of literary theory..
Hi Professor! I noticed it's been a while since this video was uploaded - I'm just wondering if you would consider doing a detailed reading of Bhabha and the critiques mentioned here? I would be very keen on learning more from you, especially regarding hybridity theory! Thank you for a great channel.
Thank you sir. Pheng Cheah's argument really caught my attention, because Bhabha's notion of hybrid space seems to entail a possibility to move beyond one's immediate cultural surroundings. However, shouldn't the fact that not everyone have that degree of mobility available, serve as grounds for cultural criticism? Maybe we should ask why some people are cut off from this mobility in the first place? Maybe it should not be seen as a privilege as such, but as something that is made into a privilege through a certain historical process. Even more, i think we should notice how, when asserting/ equating people with their particular cultural identity/space (versus hybrid identity/space) we are indirectly contributing to the history of making that cut. It seems to me that we might benefit from thinking the hybrid space distinct from social recognition. One has some degree of access to hybrid space independent of social recognition, maybe because subject remains always more than the identity subject is recognised with.
You are welcome. Please look up and read Homi Bhabha, as he is the main theorist of hybridity, and then Read Robert Young's critique of it and also look up Pheng Chea's critique of it which is included in a collected volume called "Cosmopolitics." I have added the these references in the description of the video.
Sir thank you for this short clip and for many other clips on concepts of post colonialism. sir can you just record and upload the clip on the summarily holistic picture of Bhabha's book " the Location of Culture describing concepts and ur review on it". A request from Sindh. moreover, your grip on the subject of post colonialism is extraordinarily commendable. I have been watching constantly your constantly ur clips on the subjects since the last year...
@@masoodraja Sir, i Shall be waiting for that and am impatient to listen and learn Bhabha from you and ur spacious and special experience, although partly i have read him. another pertinent thing, sir, is that Bhabha is emphasized in Sindh's universities to take as theorist. His complexities of concepts and understanding him requires experts' videos such as your honour. The way you tell things here at is most imbibing and retentive...
Thank you. I am glad you find these useful. As I said, I will only touch Bhabha after I have had time to reread him and understand him more carefully. There is no point in just making a half hearted attempt at explaining his work.
@@masoodraja Best sir. I expect you would have time to reread and parse through his complex works and educate us through your informative clips. Thank You
Thank you Sir for this brief insight to the concept. Any idea when are you planning to upload the detailed discussion on the concept of hybridity and also if possible how data can be analysed by using the concept of hybridity? Thanks
You are welcome. It is on my list but am not sure when I will get around to it. As for data analysis, I am not trained to write like a social scientist so I just take any concept discuss it and then read a text with that knowledge.
In modren world, there is virtual crossing of borders through internet, isn't it sufficent to prove Bhabha' claim of crossing borders to enter third space and attain hybridity?
Salam Respect sir . sir I have a general question if you could please answer it? sir I have observed that when a person does something wrong in regards to his /her religion, some people, instead of blaming it convert the the concentration of people by saying that why don't you blame that act of that person etc. Example: Here, in Pakistan some people call the dancers to dance in a mosque and they did. Now, some people blamed it very seriously . So the people who blamed it were blamed by some more saying that why don't you people blame that person in that area and bla bla. So what is your opinion what kind of people they are who blamed the other who blamed the wrong deed?
Thank you. I am not sure about remembering part, as I do not require that of my students. But the more you read and understand the better you will be able to recollect what you have read.
Bhaba's notion that anything can enter the process of signation (or signification) and create a 'hybrid' suggests he believes in Saussure's 'arbitrariness of the sign' which too leaves it upto the general populace to mean anything by a signifier provided there is consensus among the members of the speech community and that there's scooe for anything to enter the realm of semantics. In that sense, postcolonial discourse (or at least hybridity) has something to do with structuralism/poststructuralism. Is it so?
Thank you. Yes, structuralism and post structuralism are important here but pistfooonial theory isn’t one theory so it will depend on what strain of theory one is using.
Thank you. Please do keep in mind that these are just brief introductions. Any serious work of scholarship would need extensive reading on part of the researchers.
@@masoodraja I am a student of linguistics actually and the discourse in question interests me. Yes, there's a lot to be covered. I have read some seminal works and still do. From Fanon, Sartre, Loomba, Young, there's a wide range of writers on the subject. Your lectures are very helpful in understanding the basics of the discourse. Keep enlightening, sir.
Sir by using signifier and signified.. Are you referring to colonizer and colonized? Or these mean something else..... Secondly sir you said that the natives also introduced cultural difference in colonizer's culture... what do mean by this, that as the culture of natives is influenced by colonizer , in the same way the culture of colonizers is also influenced by native.
Thank you. Most things are already explained in the video. By signifier and signified I mean the basic sign in Saussure. Please read him for further clarity. And yes, both cultures are impacted. There is no pure culture; all cultures are hybrid.
colonizer is not imitating the culture of colonized bcz they thimk them uncivilized for example they have not adopt our language . SO I can't understand how they can be hybrid ?
Thank you. I guess you will probably have to read some more. The idea isn’t how hybrid is a culture but that there is no essentially pure culture. So, I recommend further reading, as these videos are just an introduction. Also, it is kind to also thank the person who put some effort into their work and put it out for free.
An intellectual person is speaking and each word is insightful. Thank you doctor, and Sir please keep on uploading videos. They are very helpful.
Thank you so much.
Thanks, you elucidated Hybridity commendably, I discovered your videos while I was working on life of Raja Masood Reza Khan , great psychoanalyst who worked with Anna Freud and she complimented him as the only psychoanalyst who understood Freud adequately. He was genius belonged to Chawkwal, wrote books on psychoanalysis. Since then listening you regularly. I uploaded three videos on Raja Masood Reza in Urdu.
Thank you so much. I will will look into the work of Raja Masood Raza Khan.
Thank you Dr. Raja for being there!
You are welcome.
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Thank you so much for this much anticipated lecture, sir.
You are welcome.
Great as ever, respected sir. Lord bless you
Thank you. You are welcome!
Very helpful insight into the concept of hybridity especially on Robert Young and Feng Shui's contributions. My thesis needed this lecture. Thank you very much, Dr.
You are welcome.
Thank you very much, may you all have a lovely weekend!
Thanks.
Thank you, sir. Great insights to understand a somewhat complex concept. This video helped me grasp the essential concepts.
You are welcome!
Always enlightening
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I love your lectures
Thank you.
Thank you for this lecture... waiting eagerly for your detailed lecture on critiques of hybridity and ambivalence.
Thank you so much. Yes, I will have to reread the texts before I record anything on it.
It was very helpful 🤗
Thank you.
This is very useful and helpful! Thank you very much! Greatly appreciated!
Thank you. I will soon try to record a more detailed version of this.
@@masoodraja Thank you, this is very helpful in itself! I'm touching on Bhabha for my dissertation and had the same question that you have answered. Love your videos
Thank you so much!!
Thanks
Thank you.
Thank you Dr. Masood! This is one of the most complex concepts in literary theory for me. Your video helped a lot. I think one of the finest examples of this concept is found in an obscure short story by Khuswant Singh, Karma where a native Indian is so flawless in his imitation of the mannerisms of the “superior” culture only to be treated with derision and contempt by a couple of mercenary policemen working in the colonial outpost. They could hear that the person they abruptly threw out sounded “too English”. They couldn’t believe their ears and thought they are hearing him that way because they are drunk. In other words the physiognomy didn’t match the what they heard. I was trying to explain the short story in terms of literary theory..
Thank you. Yes, I like your example. I could have used it when I was actively teaching.
Thanks Dr Masood.
Hi Professor! I noticed it's been a while since this video was uploaded - I'm just wondering if you would consider doing a detailed reading of Bhabha and the critiques mentioned here? I would be very keen on learning more from you, especially regarding hybridity theory! Thank you for a great channel.
Thank you so much. I probably will wait until I have time to reread Bhabha.
@@masoodraja I understand, thank you Professor! I look forward to it.
Thank you sir. Pheng Cheah's argument really caught my attention, because Bhabha's notion of hybrid space seems to entail a possibility to move beyond one's immediate cultural surroundings. However, shouldn't the fact that not everyone have that degree of mobility available, serve as grounds for cultural criticism?
Maybe we should ask why some people are cut off from this mobility in the first place? Maybe it should not be seen as a privilege as such, but as something that is made into a privilege through a certain historical process. Even more, i think we should notice how, when asserting/ equating people with their particular cultural identity/space (versus hybrid identity/space) we are indirectly contributing to the history of making that cut.
It seems to me that we might benefit from thinking the hybrid space distinct from social recognition. One has some degree of access to hybrid space independent of social recognition, maybe because subject remains always more than the identity subject is recognised with.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Yes, I highly recommend the full chapter by Pheng Chea. It has some important insights in it.
@@masoodraja Thank you sir, I will do just that as i am working through Bhabha's concepts.
Thank you😇
You are welcome!
Thank you so much for this useful and brief lecture I need some sources about hybridity because I have an assignment to write
You are welcome. Please look up and read Homi Bhabha, as he is the main theorist of hybridity, and then Read Robert Young's critique of it and also look up Pheng Chea's critique of it which is included in a collected volume called "Cosmopolitics." I have added the these references in the description of the video.
Sir thank you for this short clip and for many other clips on concepts of post colonialism. sir can you just record and upload the clip on the summarily holistic picture of Bhabha's book " the Location of Culture describing concepts and ur review on it". A request from Sindh.
moreover, your grip on the subject of post colonialism is extraordinarily commendable. I have been watching constantly your constantly ur clips on the subjects since the last year...
Thank you so much. I have intentionally not touched Bhabha. I will record on him only after I have reread his book.
@@masoodraja Sir, i Shall be waiting for that and am impatient to listen and learn Bhabha from you and ur spacious and special experience, although partly i have read him.
another pertinent thing, sir, is that Bhabha is emphasized in Sindh's universities to take as theorist. His complexities of concepts and understanding him requires experts' videos such as your honour. The way you tell things here at is most imbibing and retentive...
Thank you. I am glad you find these useful. As I said, I will only touch Bhabha after I have had time to reread him and understand him more carefully. There is no point in just making a half hearted attempt at explaining his work.
@@masoodraja Best sir. I expect you would have time to reread and parse through his complex works and educate us through your informative clips. Thank You
Sr please deliver a lecture on it in pakistani post colonial context as well.
Thank you. These are just some informal thoughts. If I ever get around to rereading Bhabha, I will try recording something about Pakistan.
Thank you Sir for this brief insight to the concept. Any idea when are you planning to upload the detailed discussion on the concept of hybridity and also if possible how data can be analysed by using the concept of hybridity?
Thanks
You are welcome. It is on my list but am not sure when I will get around to it. As for data analysis, I am not trained to write like a social scientist so I just take any concept discuss it and then read a text with that knowledge.
Thank you for your reply sir.
In modren world, there is virtual crossing of borders through internet, isn't it sufficent to prove Bhabha' claim of crossing borders to enter third space and attain hybridity?
Thank you. I am afraid I have no well thought out views on this.
Dear Sir, you are my mentor, gratitude with respect.
Thank you.
Big fan sir
Thank you.
Salam Respect sir .
sir I have a general question if you could please answer it?
sir I have observed that when a person does something wrong in regards to his /her religion, some people, instead of blaming it convert the the concentration of people by saying that why don't you blame that act of that person etc. Example:
Here, in Pakistan some people call the dancers to dance in a mosque and they did. Now, some people blamed it very seriously . So the people who blamed it were blamed by some more saying that why don't you people blame that person in that area and bla bla. So what is your opinion what kind of people they are who blamed the other who blamed the wrong deed?
Thank you. Sadly, I have no opinion on this. I guess people have to make up their own mind about it.
Sir, have you made any video on "native Informant"?
Thank you. I have not but I will put it on the list.
@@masoodraja thank you so much Sir. It is a great service for the people studying literature in general and post colonialism in particular.
Here is a tentative version: ruclips.net/video/MpCkp0PrSl8/видео.html
Sir .. just a tiny question..how to cover history of English literature in a way so that we can remember?
Thank you. I am not sure about remembering part, as I do not require that of my students. But the more you read and understand the better you will be able to recollect what you have read.
Bhaba's notion that anything can enter the process of signation (or signification) and create a 'hybrid' suggests he believes in Saussure's 'arbitrariness of the sign' which too leaves it upto the general populace to mean anything by a signifier provided there is consensus among the members of the speech community and that there's scooe for anything to enter the realm of semantics. In that sense, postcolonial discourse (or at least hybridity) has something to do with structuralism/poststructuralism. Is it so?
Thank you. Yes, structuralism and post structuralism are important here but pistfooonial theory isn’t one theory so it will depend on what strain of theory one is using.
@@masoodraja BTW, sir your lectures are simple yet profoundly informative & intellectually stimulating.
Thank you. Please do keep in mind that these are just brief introductions. Any serious work of scholarship would need extensive reading on part of the researchers.
@@masoodraja I am a student of linguistics actually and the discourse in question interests me. Yes, there's a lot to be covered. I have read some seminal works and still do. From Fanon, Sartre, Loomba, Young, there's a wide range of writers on the subject.
Your lectures are very helpful in understanding the basics of the discourse. Keep enlightening, sir.
@@tanveerhabib3169 Thank you. Good luck with your studies.
Sir by using signifier and signified.. Are you referring to colonizer and colonized? Or these mean something else.....
Secondly sir you said that the natives also introduced cultural difference in colonizer's culture... what do mean by this, that as the culture of natives is influenced by colonizer , in the same way the culture of colonizers is also influenced by native.
Thank you. Most things are already explained in the video. By signifier and signified I mean the basic sign in Saussure. Please read him for further clarity. And yes, both cultures are impacted. There is no pure culture; all cultures are hybrid.
@@masoodraja okay Sir got it...
colonizer is not imitating the culture of colonized bcz they thimk them uncivilized for example they have not adopt our language . SO I can't understand how they can be hybrid ?
Thank you. I guess you will probably have to read some more. The idea isn’t how hybrid is a culture but that there is no essentially pure culture. So, I recommend further reading, as these videos are just an introduction. Also, it is kind to also thank the person who put some effort into their work and put it out for free.