Questioning hybridity, postcolonialism and globalization

Author

• Acheraiou, Amar

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

Language

English

ISBN

9781349334414

Series

Subject(s)

• CULTURAL FUSION IN LITERATURE
• POSTCOLONIALISM
• MULTICULTURALISM IN LITERATURE

Notes

. Bibliography: p.210-220. Index: p.221-223

Abstract

This book offers an accessible, in-depth analysis of hybridity as a practice, discourse, and ideological construction. Its scope ranges widely, encompassing conceptualizations of hybridity from ancient Greece and Rome to the present. The views of such key figures as Plato, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Virgil, Gobineau, Renan, and Tocqueville, as well as Bakhtin, Fanon, and Bhabha are all freshly reassessed. The ground-breaking perspectives provided reorient contemporary debates on hybridity and the 'Third Space'. They significantly widen our awareness of the history of m̌tissage and expand the methodological, conceptual, empirical, and ideological orientations of contemporary hybridity theorists. AcheraIou deftly examines the questions of race, class, identity, binarism, postmodernist ideology, neoliberalism, and globalization. In particular, he recommends decolonizing postcolonialism, indicating ways to transcend the cultural and spatial turn predetermining current discussions of m̌tissage, culture, and identity politics. Throughout, he analyzes hybridity in the light of globalization, suggesting how postcolonialism could become a genuinely counter-hegemonic mode of resistance to global neoliberal doxa

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

viii, 223p.

Dimension

23 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Métissage, ideology, and politics in ancient discourses --
Myths of purity and mixed marriages from antiquity to the middle ages --
Interracial relationships and the economy of power in modern empires --
The ethos of hybridity-discourse --
Critical perspectives on hybridity and the third space --
Class, race, and postcolonial hybridity-discourse --
Postcolonial discourse, postmodernist ethos: neocolonial complicities --
Hybridity-discourse and binarism --
The global and the postcolonial: uneasy alliance --
Hybridity-discourse and neoliberalism/ neocolonialism --
Decolonizing postcolonial discourse.

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