110734 20230111103845.0 doi 10.24197/ersjes.42.2021.199-215 sideral 127207 ART-2021-127207 eng Nadal-Ruiz, Alejandro Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-5620-8300 Celebrating Cultural Hybridity through Storytelling: Othello as a Borderlands Character in Caryl Phillips'' the Nature of Blood 2021 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This paper provides a new approach to Othello's story in Caryl Phillips' polyphonic novel The Nature of Blood (1997). The fictional Othello finds himself at the crossroads between different cultures and is struggling to define his identity. Making use of Gloria Anzaldúa's borderlands theory as exposed in her work Borderlands/La Frontera (1987), this study explores Phillips' Othello as a borderlands character. Accordingly, it is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate that, as a borderlands character-narrator, Othello succeeds in bringing together the two hitherto conflicting cultures that he knows (Africa and Venice) through storytelling. Indeed, his narrative proves a transborder testimony that contributes to creating a debate forum where cultural hybridity is celebrated. © 2021 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid. All Rights Reserved. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H03-20R info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIU/FFI2017-84258-P info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MCIU/FPU18-00782 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ 0.3 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3004 345 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Filolog.Inglesa y Alema. Área Filología Inglesa 42 (2021), 199-215 ES rev. filol. ing. Es Review, Spanish Journal of English Studies 2531-1646 416470 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/110734/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1697535 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/110734/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:110734 articulos driver 2023-01-11-10:11:12 ARTICLE