Reconstructing Hybridity

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401203890

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Reconstructing Hybridity by Anonim Pdf

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.

Author : Joel Kuortti,Jopi Nyman
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042021419

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Reconstructing Hybridity by Joel Kuortti,Jopi Nyman Pdf

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.

Author : Vanessa Guignery,Catherine Pesso-Miquel,François Specq
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443833967

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Hybridity by Vanessa Guignery,Catherine Pesso-Miquel,François Specq Pdf

Over the last two decades, the unstable notion of hybridity has been the focus of a number of debates in cultural and literary studies, and has been discussed in connection with such notions as métissage, creolization, syncretism, diaspora, transculturation and in-betweeness. The aim of this volume is to form a critical assessment of the scope, significance and role of the notion in literature and the visual arts from the eighteenth century to the present day. The contributors propose to examine the development and various manifestations of the concept as a principle held in contempt by the partisans of racial purity, a process enthusiastically promoted by adepts of mixing and syncretism, but also a notion viewed with suspicion by those who decry its multifarious and triumphalist dimensions and its lack of political roots. The notion of hybridity is analysed in relation to the concepts of identity, nationhood, language and culture, drawing from the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin, Homi Bhabha, Robert Young, Paul Gilroy and Edouard Glissant, among others. Contributors examine forms of hybridity in the work of such canonical writers as Daniel Defoe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas De Quincey and Victor Hugo, as well as in contemporary American and British fiction, Neo-Victorian and postcolonial literature.

Author : Rocío G. Davis,Dorothea Fischer-Hornung,Johanna C. Kardux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781136922121

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Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media, Music, and Art by Rocío G. Davis,Dorothea Fischer-Hornung,Johanna C. Kardux Pdf

This volume analyzes innovative forms of media and music (art installations, television commercials, photography, films, songs, telenovelas) to examine the performance of migration in contemporary culture. Though migration studies and media studies are ostensibly different fields, this transnational collection of essays addresses how their interconnection has shaped our understanding of the paradigms through which we think about migration, ethnicity, nation, and the transnational. Cultural representations intervene in collective beliefs. Art and media clearly influence the ways the experience of migration is articulated and recalled, intervening in individual perceptions as well as public policy. To understand the connection between migration and diverse media, the authors examine how migration is represented in film, television, music, and art, but also how media shape the ways in which host country and homeland are imagined. Among the topics considered are new mediated forms for representing migration, widening the perspective on the ways these representations may be analyzed; readings of enactments of memory in trans- and inter-disciplinary ways; and discussions of globalization and transnationalism, inviting us to rethink traditional borders in respect to migration, nation states, as well as disciplines.

Author : Christine Vandamme,André Dodeman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527576629

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Space, Place and Hybridity in the National Imagination by Christine Vandamme,André Dodeman Pdf

This volume explores space, place and hybridity in today’s multicultural societies with a strong emphasis on the role of art and spatial representations, in order to map out the complexity of modern nations and celebrate the creative powers of their highly dynamic communities and cultures. It considers how the very idea of the nation has evolved since the emergence and development of the idea of the nation-state at the end of the eighteenth century, and how art can reinvigorate representations of nation-states worldwide without relegating their minorities to the margin. Instead of merely focusing on the role of place and land in national representations, the book adopts a wider and more critical approach to space in the arts by investigating the notions of both hybridity and Bhabha’s “Third Space” in the fields of aesthetics, film studies and literature, with a particular emphasis on postcolonial literature.

Author : Nicolas Lemay-Hébert,Rosa Freedman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317202905

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Hybridity: Law, Culture and Development by Nicolas Lemay-Hébert,Rosa Freedman Pdf

This book explores recent developments in the concept of hybridity through a multi-disciplinary perspective, bringing ideas about legal plurality together with the fields of peace, development and cultural studies. Analysing the concepts of hybridity and hybridization, their history, their application in law and legal studies, and their implications for thinking and rethinking legal plurality, the book shows how the concept of hybridity can contribute to an understanding of the processes that occur when different normative or legal orders or frameworks confront each other.

Author : Joel Kuortti,Jopi Nyman,Mehdi Ghasemi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000964608

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Engagements with Hybridity in Literature by Joel Kuortti,Jopi Nyman,Mehdi Ghasemi Pdf

Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An Introduction is a textbook especially for undergraduate and graduate students of literature. It discusses the different dimensions of the notion of hybridity in theory and practice, introducing the use and relevance of the concept in literary studies. As a structured and up-to-date source for both instructors and learners, it provides a fascinating selection of materials and approaches. The book examines the concept of hybridity, offers a historical overview of the term and its critique, and draws upon the key ideas, trends, and voices in the field. It critically engages with the theoretical, intellectual, and literary discussions of the concept from the time of colonialism to the postmodern era and beyond. The book enables students to develop critical thinking through engaging them in case studies addressing a diverse selection of literary texts from various genres and cultures that open up new perspectives and opportunities for analysis. Each chapter offers a specific theoretical background and close readings of hybridity in literary texts. To improve the students’ analytical skills and knowledge of hybridity, each chapter includes relevant tasks, questions, and additional reference materials.

Author : Yuan Yuan
Publisher : UPA
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780761866633

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The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx by Yuan Yuan Pdf

The issue of the other has always been an urgent one, especially since 1980’s, when the political debates over race, gender, class, culture, ethnicity, and post-colonialism took the central stage. The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque probes the polemic status of the other and the dubious nature of the subject from a heterodox perspective of an emblematic grotesque figure, the Sphinx—the mystical trickster and the guardian of sacred knowledge in Egyptian culture. In Greek mythology, Oedipus, the epitome of Western logos, solved the Sphinx’s riddle with a single word, “Man.” This evocation for the phantom of a solipsistic subject discloses, in effect, Oedipus’ latent grotesque disparity. The book explores the encounter of this unlikely pair to inquire the riddling relationship between the singular subject and the grotesque other in the context of modern discourses of the subject and postmodern theories of the other.

Author : Alexandra Simon-López,Mankhrawbor Dunai
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848884137

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Handmaiden of Death: Apocalypse and Revelation by Alexandra Simon-López,Mankhrawbor Dunai Pdf

Seeking to preserve our future, this volume attempts to imagine in what form the apocalypse may strike. It critically assesses the roles played by literature as well as digital media as instruments for the propagation of apocalyptic ideas through its envisioning in books, movies and T.V. serials alike. The volume seeks to preserve both our future social and environmental futures through the different predictions of the end.

Author : Nirmala Menon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137537980

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Remapping the Indian Postcolonial Canon by Nirmala Menon Pdf

This book critically examines the postcolonial canon, questioning both the disproportionate attention to texts written in English and their overuse in attempts to understand the postcolonial condition. The author addresses the non-representation of Indian literature in theory, and the inadequacy of generalizing postcolonial experiences and subjectivities based on literature produced in one language (English). It argues that, while postcolonial scholarship has successfully challenged Eurocentrism, it is now time to extend the dimensions beyond Anglophone and Francophone literatures to include literatures in other languages such as Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Tagalog, and Swahili.

Author : Christopher D. Stanley
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780800668549

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The Colonized Apostle by Christopher D. Stanley Pdf

Author : Marcos Alan Ferreira
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030792091

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Peace and Violence in Brazil by Marcos Alan Ferreira Pdf

This edited volume examines how the multiple manifestations of social violence in Brazil impacts the building of a peaceful society. The chapters reflect on the role of state, organized crime and civil society. They provide a unique analysis of how the Brazilian state deals with criminal violence, but also finds challenges to comply with Sustainable Development Goal 16, to interdict police violence, and to provide an efficient gun policy. The book shows the agency of civil society in a violent society, in which NGOs and communities engage in key peace formation action, including advocacy for human rights and promoting arts. The overall aim of this book is to advance the research agenda regarding the intersections between peace, public security, and violence, under the lens of peace studies. In Brazil, the challenges to peace differ markedly from areas in regular conflict.

Author : Brigitte Wallinger-Schorn
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401207010

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"So There It Is" by Brigitte Wallinger-Schorn Pdf

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Cultural Hybridity -- Linguistic Hybridity -- Narrative Hybridity -- Formal Hybridity -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Interviews -- Index.

Author : Kathleen Diffley
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1617030260

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Witness to Reconstruction by Kathleen Diffley Pdf

In the wake of the Civil War, Constance Fenimore Woolson became one of the first northern observers to linger in the defeated states from Virginia to Florida. Born in New Hampshire in 1840 and raised in Ohio, she was the grandniece of James Fenimore Cooper and was gaining success as a writer when she departed in 1873 for St. Augustine. During the next six years, she made her way across the South and reported what she saw, first in illustrated travel accounts and then in the poetry, stories, and serialized novels that brought unsettled social relations to the pages of Harper's Monthly, the Atlantic, Scribner's Monthly, Appletons' Journal, and the Galaxy. In the midst of Reconstruction and in print for years to come, Woolson revealed the sharp edges of loss, the sharper summons of opportunity, and the entanglements of northern misperceptions a decade before the waves of well-heeled tourists arrived during the 1880s. This volume's sixteen essays are intent on illuminating, through her example, the neglected world of Reconstruction's backwaters in literary developments that were politically charged and genuinely unpredictable. Drawing upon the postcolonial and transnational perspectives of New Southern Studies, as well as the cultural history, intellectual genealogy, and feminist priorities that lend urgency to the portraits of the global South, this collection investigates the mysterious, ravaged territory of a defeated nation as curious northern readers first saw it.

Author : Maruta Herding
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839425114

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Inventing the Muslim Cool by Maruta Herding Pdf

In the current environment of a growing Muslim presence in Europe, young Muslims have started to develop a subculture of their own. The manifestations reach from religious rap and street wear with Islamic slogans to morally »impeccable« comedy. This form of religiously permissible fun and of youth-compatible worship is actively engaged in shaping the future of Islam in Europe and of Muslim/non-Muslims relations. Based on a vast collection of youth cultural artefacts, participant observations and in-depth interviews in France, Britain and Germany, this book provides a vivid description of Islamic youth culture and explores the reasons why young people develop such a culture.