Abstract
Homi K. Bhabha, an Indian postcolonial scholar, argues that cross-cultural inter-action is a process of “negotiation rather than negation”, involving complex dialogue, subversion, displacement, and realignment. This paper uses Bhabha’s thought of “cultural negotiation” to create a concentric zone model of strategies for cultural negotiation, providing a referential paradigm for postcolonial discourse analysis. The contemporary practice of postcolonial discourse presents five fundamental cultural strategies: cultural subservience, cultural resistance, cultural nationalism, cultural hybridity, and cultural translation, which are further refined into textual strategies, such as “imitation and assimilation”, “violence and subversion”, “memory and return”, “dialogue and complicity”, and “blasphemy, distortion and supplement”. By combining the idea of “cultural negotiation” with significant literary and critical works in the field, this paper analyzes the dynamic process of interaction, fusion, digestion, and regeneration between diverse cultures in postcolonial writing. Through the model of “cultural negotiation”, this paper systematizes and clarifies the complex process of cross-cultural interaction, providing insights into the ways in which cultures interact and negotiate with one another.
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