Hybridity : limits, transformations, prospects /

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Author / Creator:	Prabhu, Anjali.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 186 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies.
Subject:	Reunionese literature (French) -- History and criticism. Racially mixed people in literature. Racially mixed people -- Psychology. Miscegenation. Civilization. Miscegenation. Racially mixed people in literature. Racially mixed people -- Psychology. Reunionese literature (French) Réunion -- Civilization. Mauritius -- Civilization. Mauritius. Réunion. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11152818

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ISBN:	9781429471442 1429471441 9780791470411 0791470415 9780791470428 0791470423 9780791480359 0791480356
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Annotation 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 Reunion, 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. Book jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Prabhu, Anjali. Hybridity. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007 9780791470411 0791470415

Table of Contents:

Hybridity in contemporary postcolonial theory : examining agency
Hybridity in La Réunion : Monique Boyer's Métisse and the nation as necessity
Theorizing hybridity : colonial and postcolonial La Réunion
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 Poétique de la relation
Frantz Fanon and hybridity : a closer look at narrative in Black skin, white masks
Afterword : why hybridity now?

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