%0 Journal Article
%T ¡°I WANT TO BE NOTHING¡±. CHALLENGING NOTIONS OF CULTURE, RACE AND IDENTITY
%A Agata Lubowicka
%J Studia Humanistyczne (Krak¨®w. 2003)
%D 2011
%I 
%X This article tackles the issue of ¡°hyphenated identities¡± in Heidi W. Durrow¡¯s novel The girl who fell from the sky (2010), whose main topic is growing up as a girl of mixed race in a dominant black culture. This article examines how Rachel Morse, the main character in the novel, challenges racism and the essentialist notion of identity. Firstly, Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy¡¯s approaches to that issue are introduced and discussed. Then in relation to their theories an interpretation of Durrow¡¯s
%K American literature
%K in-between
%K identity
%K constructivism
%K anti-essentialism
%U http://journals.bg.agh.edu.pl/STUDIA/2011-02/SH_2011_02_06.pdf