Questioning hybridity, postcolonialism and globalization [Elektronisk resurs] / Amar Acheraiou.

• Introduction PART I: HYBRIDITY, A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERN TIMES Metissage, 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 PART II: HYBRIDITY IN CONTEMPORARY THEORY: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT 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 Theory and Binarism The Global and the Postcolonial: Uneasy Alliance Hybridity and Neoliberalism/Neocolonialism Decolonizing Postcolonial Discourse Conclusion Bibliography Index.

• AcheraIou analyzes hybridity using a theoretical, empirical approach that reorients debates on metissage and the 'Third Space', arguing for the decolonization of postcolonialism. Hybridity is examined in the light of globalization, indicating how postcolonial discourse could become a counter-hegemonic ethics of resistance to global neoliberal doxa. -- 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 metissage 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 metissage, 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. 
• 'This is a fine and timely book that contributes with new perspectives to the current concern in postcolonial and cultural studies of broadening the scope of hybridity theory. AcheraIou's book expands our awareness of the history of hybridity and hybridity as a product of historical processes, which altogether refines the notion of hybridity as a theoretical concept. The book is very well-written and communicates difficult material in a lucid and inviting manner. It offers new, compelling and productive ideas to theorists and students in postcolonial and globalisation studies.' - Sten Pultz Moslund, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern Denmark. 

Ämnesord

Kulturell mångfald i litteraturen  (sao)

Kultur och globalisering  (sao)

Postkolonialism i litteraturen  (sao)

Cultural fusion in literature.  (LCSH)

Postcolonialism in literature.  (LCSH)

Literature  -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. (LCSH)

Globalization  -- Social aspects. (LCSH)

Literature.  (eflch)

Postcolonialism in literature  (LCSH)

Culture and globalization  (LCSH)

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