In-betweenness definition
In-betweenness. , according to Bhabha (1996), means “baffling both alike and different […], [t]he peculiarity of cultures […], and even metonymic presence lies in articulating those social divisions and unequal developments that disturb the self-recognition of the national culture, its anointed horizons of territory and tradition” (p. 54). According to Hoogvelt as stated in Koc (2006), Bhabha’s concept is “celebrated and privileged as a kind of superior cultural intelligence owing to the advantage of in-betweeness, the straddling of two cultures and the consequent ability to negotiate the difference” (p. 42).