Reconstructing hybridity : post-colonial studies in transition
Title:
Reconstructing hybridity : post-colonial studies in transition
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Joel Kuortti and Jopi Nyman.
Publication Information:
Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 330 pages)
ISBN:
9781429481243
9789042021419
Abstract:
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 c.
Local Note:
UAF Rasmuson Library Ebook Central subscription access.
UAS/JPL: EBSCO Academic Subscription.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Contributors; 'Introduction: Hybridity Today'; Part One: Reconstructing Theories of Hybridity; 'Hybridity and Cultural Rights: Inventing Global Citizenship'; 'White Fatigue, or, Supplementary Notes on Hybridity'; 'Postcolonial Desire: Mimicry, Hegemony, Hybridity'; 'As a Tupi-Indian, Playing the Lute: Hybridity as Anthropophagy'; 'Strategic Hybridity: Some Pacific Takes on Postcolonial Theory'; 'From Nostalgia to Postalgia: Hybridity and Its Discontents in the Work of Paul Gilroy and the Wachowski Brothers'; Part Two: Reading Hybridity
'Hybrid Constructions: Native Autobiography and the Open Curves of Cultural Hybridity''The Necessity and Impossibility of Being Mixed-Race in Asian American Literature'; 'The Hybridity of the Asian American Subject in Cynthia Kadohata's The Floating World'; 'Problematic Hybrid Identity in the Diasporic Writings of Jhumpa Lahiri'; 'The Hybrid State: Hanif Kureishi and Thatcher's Britain'; 'Performing British Identity: Fix Up and Fragile Land'; 'Subaltern Envy? Salman Rushdie's Moor's Last Sigh'; 'Postethnicity and Postcommunism in Hanif Kureishi's Gabriel's Gift and Salman Rushdie's Fury'
IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; Y; V; W; Z
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.