Contesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural... - Holliday, Adrian

Taylor & Francis

Contesting Grand Narratives of the InterculturalAuthor(s): Adrian Holliday\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367482992, 978-0367482992\nSynopsis\nContesting Grand Narratives of the Intercultural uses an autoethnographic account of the authors experience of living in Iran in the 1970s to demonstrate the constant struggle to prevent the intercultural from being dominated by essentialist grand narratives that falsely define us within separate, bounded national or civilisational cultures.\n\nThis book provides critical insight that:\n\nDeCentres how we encounter and research the intercultural by means of a third-space methodology\n\nRecovers the figurative, creative, flowing, and boundary-dissolving power of culture\n\nRecognises hybrid integration which enables us the choice and agency to be ourselves with others in intercultural settings\n\nDemonstrates how early native-speakerism pulls us back to essentialist large.