ABSTRACT
Creative non-fiction is used as an ethnographic method to explore how we position ourselves in instances of intercultural conflict. This approach is post-modern in its focus not on communication between separate cultures, but instead on how prejudice, micro-aggression, and racism derive from conflicting essentialist and non-essentialist discourses and narratives. The creative non-fiction is composed from disciplined direct observation of social life and presents a relationship between several composite characters within the process of everyday small culture formation on the go. There is a focus on how decoloniality needs to contest the Center nationalist and colonialist organization of people into separate cultures and identities that deny the deCentered norm of cultural hybridity. The chapter describes how an example of creative non-fiction is written to demonstrate to its readers the processes of conflict in such a way that they are able to identify with the characters and themes and their uncertainties, where resolution requires a deCentering which is difficult and often incomplete due to an enduring Center politics.
