Reconstructing hybridity : post-colonial studies in transition / edited by Joel Kuortti and Jopi Nyman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ebooks Corporation.

Kuortti, Joel.

Nyman, Jopi, 1966-

Series:

Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 51.

Textxet : studies in comparative literature ; 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural fusion in literature.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (341 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial theory and literature. The challenging articles written by internationally acclaimed scholars discuss the usefulness of the term in relation to such questions as citizenship, whiteness studies and transnational identity politics. In addition to developing theories of hybridity, the articles in this volume deal with the role of hybridity in a variety of literary and cultural phenomena in geographical settings ranging from the Pacific to native North America. The collection pays particular attention to questions of hybridity, migrancy and diaspora.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Hybridity Today / Joel Kuortti and Jopi Nyman

Hybridity and Cultural Rights: Inventing Global Citizenship / David Huddart

White Fatigue, or, Supplementary Notes on Hybridity / Sabine Broeck

Postcolonial Desire: Mimicry, Hegemony, Hybridity / Dimple Godiwala

As a Tupi-Indian, Playing the Lute: Hybridity as Anthropophagy / Jeroen Dewulf

Strategic Hybridity: Some Pacific Takes on Postcolonial Theory / Paul Sharrad

From Nostalgia to Postalgia: Hybridity and Its Discontents in the Work of Paul Gilroy and the Wachowski Brothers / Andrew Blake

Hybrid Constructions: Native Autobiography and the Open Curves of Cultural Hybridity / Zoe Trodd

The Necessity and Impossibility of Being Mixed-Race in Asian American Literature / Sheng-mei Ma

The Hybridity of the Asian American Subject in Cynthia Kadohata’s The Floating World / Jopi Nyman

Problematic Hybrid Identity in the Diasporic Writings of Jhumpa Lahiri / Joel Kuortti

The Hybrid State: Hanif Kureishi and Thatcher’s Britain / Andrew Hammond

Performing British Hybridity: Fix Up and Fragile Land / Valerie Kaneko Lucas

Subaltern Envy? Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh / Samir Dayal

Postethnicity and Postcommunism in Hanif Kureishi’s Gabriel’s Gift and Salman Rushdie’s Fury / Mita Banerjee

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0389-X

1-4294-8124-2

OCLC:

166342338

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401203890 DOI