Hybridity : limits, transformations, prospects /

Prabhu, Anjali.

Hybridity : limits, transformations, prospects / Anjali Prabhu. - Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007. - xviii, 185 p. ; 24 cm. - SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies . - SUNY series, explorations in postcolonial studies. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-174) and index.

Introduction : hybridity in contemporary postcolonial theory : examining agency -- Hybridity in La Reunion : Monique Boyer's Metisse and the nation as necessity -- Theorizing hybridity : colonial and postcolonial La Reunion -- On the difficulty of articulating hybridity : Africanness in Mauritius -- Ethnicity and the fate of the nation : reading Mauritius -- Interrogating hybridity : subaltern agency and totality through Edouard Glissant's Poetique de la Relation -- Narration in Frantz Fanon's Peau noire masques blancs : some reconsiderations for hybridity -- Afterword : why hybridity now? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

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Reunionese literature (French)--History and criticism.
Racially mixed people in literature.
Racially mixed people--Psychology.
Miscegenation.


RĂ©union--Civilization.
Mauritius--Civilization.

PQ3988.5.R4 / P73 2007

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