Hybridity : limits, transformations, prospects / Anjali Prabhu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prabhu, Anjali.

Series:

SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies.

SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reunionese literature (French)--History and criticism.

Reunionese literature (French).

Multiracial people in literature.

Multiracial people--Psychology.

Multiracial people.

Miscegenation (Racist theory).

Réunion--Civilization.

Réunion.

Mauritius--Civilization.

Mauritius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (206 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This critical engagement with some of the most prominent contemporary theorists of postcolonial studies reevaluates recent theories of hybridity and agency. Challenging the claim that hybridity provides a site of resistance to hegemonic and homogenizing forces in an increasingly globalized world, Anjali Prabhu pursues the ways in which hybridity plays out in the Creole, postcolonial societies of Mauritius and La Réunion, two small islands in the Indian Ocean, and offers an introduction to the literature and culture of this lesser-known region of Francophonie. She also reconsiders two major theorists from the Francophone context, Edouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon, through a provocatively Marxian framing that reveals these two writers shared more in common about agency and society than has previously been recognized.

Contents:

Hybridity in contemporary postcolonial theory : examining agency

Hybridity in La Reunion : Monique Boyer's Metisse and the nation as necessity

Theorizing hybridity : colonial and postcolonial La Reunion

On the difficulty of articulating hybridity : africanness Mauritius nation

Ethnicity and the fate of the nation : reading Mauritius

Interrogating hybridity : subaltern agency and totality in postcolonial theory through Edouard Glissant's Poetique de la relation

Frantz Fanon and hybridity : a closer look at narrative in Black skin, white masks

Afterword : why hybridity now?

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174) and index.

ISBN:

9780791480359

0791480356

9781429471442

1429471441

OCLC:

140287244