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Reconstructing hybridity : post-colonial studies in transition /

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 citiz...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kuortti, Joel, Nyman, Jopi, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.
Colección:Text (Rodopi (Firm)) ; 51.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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