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Recent debates on postcolonial literatures have increasingly come to
resort to the term hybridity. The present volume seeks to discuss the
concept of hybridity in relation to (expatriate) Indian writing. The individual
essays are partly theoretical and partly practical. They trace a variety of
hybrid constellations in literary texts, attempt to relate the concept of
hybridity to postcolonialism, and they seek to illustrate typical developments
within Indian literature in English in their relationship to the hybridization
of cultural processes in a (post)colonial environment. Authors discussed include
Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul, Hanif Kureishi, Sara Suleri, Bharati Mukherjee and
many others. Among the topics on which individual essays focus are feminist
issues, the use of exoticist and oriental clichés (for instance, the topos of
Eastern chaos), of ritual and community, of displacement and migrancy. The
collection accommodates a variety of methodological approaches but emphasizes
the theoretical perspectives, particularly postcolonial and feminist theory.
Homi Bhabha’s theories figure prominently in the volume but also give rise to
some critical comments and rewritings. The collection unites voices from Europe
with scholarly contributions from the United States, thereby formally
instituting a kind of cross-atlantic hybridity of the scholarly discourse on
India, hybridity, and postcolonialism. |
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