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Discourses of Tension in a Rainbow Nation: Transcultural Identity Formations Among Hakka Mauritians /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Discourses of Tension in a Rainbow Nation: Transcultural Identity Formations Among Hakka Mauritians // Federica Guccini.
Author:	Guccini, Federica,
Description:	1 electronic resource (330 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-09A.
Subject:	Ethnography. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30331168
ISBN:	9798374480948

Discourses of Tension in a Rainbow Nation: Transcultural Identity Formations Among Hakka Mauritians /
Guccini, Federica,

Discourses of Tension in a Rainbow Nation: Transcultural Identity Formations Among Hakka Mauritians /Federica Guccini. - 1 electronic resource (330 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-09, Section: A.

Identity formation happens at a crossroads of that which people believe they are and are not. Acknowledgment, reification, or subversion of identity frictionsform powerful communicative patterns that I call 'discourses of tension'. I argue in this dissertation that discourses of tension are foundational to the formation of transcultural identities-positionalities that emerge between or beyond perceived cultural boundaries-because they enable people to identify and express cultural complexities and expectations.Based on ten months of ethnographic fieldwork and research in other relevant sites, this argument is supported by my analysis of how Hakka Chinese Mauritians express agency and identity within the affordances and constraints presented by historical relations, ideologies, policies, and sociopolitical developments in postcolonial Mauritius. This small Indian Ocean island state is lauded for its peaceful multicultural society while imposing restrictive ethnic classification into four groups (Hindu, Muslim, Chinese, and 'General Population') onto its citizens. Mauritian identity formation is anchored in raciolinguistic ideologies which view language and race as naturally linked. These ideologies produce expectations of people's language use and identity expression, which often conflict with social realities in Mauritius.Within this field of tension, Hakka Mauritians often find themselves having to reassert their identities as 'authentically' Mauritian, Chinese, or Hakka. This is further complicated by the recent 'rise' of China, which promotes Mandarin language education (instead of Hakka) and affects local perceptions of what it means to be 'Chinese'. I present three key contexts in which discourses of tension become salient for Hakka Mauritian expression:a) Mauritian discourses of nation-building and ethnolinguistic community formationb) Shifts from Hakka to Mandarin in Chinese Mauritian heritage language classroomsc) Ideologies of 'Chineseness' in the semiotic landscape of Mauritian Chinatown My research shows that Hakka Mauritians occupy constant 'in-between' spaces and engage in discourses of tension to (re-)examine their identities. My dissertation thus contributes to anthropology an account of individual agency in expressing fluidity and complexity in transcultural identities against the backdrop of discursive tensions.

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