Hybridity

Anjali Prabhu is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Wellesley College.

"This remarkable contribution to debates about the relations between hybridity and society in postcolonial studies will make a dramatic impact on the field. Nowhere have the notions of hybridity and diaspora been discussed so thoroughly. It will be very useful as both a productive theoretical resource and an instrument for teaching and should be of interest to scholars and students in literary studies, anthropology, history, and social theory." — Ato Quayson, author of Calibrations: Reading for the Social"While the field of postcolonial studies is by no means new, and varying readings and interpretations of its core concepts of hybridity and métissage have been added to the literature over time, few have done so in such length, breadth, and depth, problematizing competing sets of current approaches to critical theory and drawing on the resulting conclusions to stage new readings of fiction and criticism from a variety of geographical locations. The caliber of the writing and the analysis make this book a welcome and necessary addition to the canon of postcolonial criticism." — Adlai Murdoch, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Introduction. Hybridity in Contemporary Postcolonial Theory: Examining Agency2. Hybridity in La Réunion: Monique Boyer’s Métisse and the Nation as Necessity3. Theorizing Hybridity: Colonial and Postcolonial La Réunion4. On the Difficulty of Articulating Hybridity: Africanness in Mauritius5. Ethnicity and the Fate of the Nation: Reading Mauritius6. Interrogating Hybridity: Subaltern Agency and Totality Through Edouard Glissant’s Poétique de la Relation7. Narration in Frantz Fanon’s Peau noire masques blancs: Some Reconsiderations for HybridityAfterword: Why Hybridity Now?NotesWorks CitedIndex