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Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An Introduction is a
textbook especially for undergraduate and graduate students of
literature. It discusses the different dimensions of the notion of
hybridity in theory and practice, introducing the use and relevance
of the concept in literary studies. As a structured and up-to-date
source for both instructors and learners, it provides a fascinating
selection of materials and approaches . The book examines the
concept of hybridity, offers a historical overview of the term and
its critique, and draws upon the key ideas, tends, and voices in
the field. The book critically engages with the theoretical
intellectual and literary discussions of the concept from the time
of the colonialism to the postmodern era and beyond. The book
enables students to develop critical thinking through engaging them
in case studies addressing a diverse selection of literary texts
from various genres and cultures.ifferent genres that open up new
perspectives and opportunities for analysis. Each chapter offers a
specific theoretical background and close readings of hybridity in
literary texts. To improve the students’ analytical skills and
knowledge of hybridity, each chapter includes relevant tasks,
questions, and additional reference materials.
Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An Introduction is a
textbook especially for undergraduate and graduate students of
literature. It discusses the different dimensions of the notion of
hybridity in theory and practice, introducing the use and relevance
of the concept in literary studies. As a structured and up-to-date
source for both instructors and learners, it provides a fascinating
selection of materials and approaches . The book examines the
concept of hybridity, offers a historical overview of the term and
its critique, and draws upon the key ideas, tends, and voices in
the field. The book critically engages with the theoretical
intellectual and literary discussions of the concept from the time
of the colonialism to the postmodern era and beyond. The book
enables students to develop critical thinking through engaging them
in case studies addressing a diverse selection of literary texts
from various genres and cultures.ifferent genres that open up new
perspectives and opportunities for analysis. Each chapter offers a
specific theoretical background and close readings of hybridity in
literary texts. To improve the students’ analytical skills and
knowledge of hybridity, each chapter includes relevant tasks,
questions, and additional reference materials.
Suggesting that women are 'reshaping English' as Rushdie suggests,
Kuortti interviews 7 women writers to find out why they write in
English, which cannot be neutral. As a colony, the language was
inescapably associated with class, race and power; after
independence it has grown in power and status, yet the problematic
of English as the language of the hegemonic West remains. Even so a
new canon of women writing in English is being formed. Interviewing
the writers Shashi Deshpande, the late Shama Futehally, Githa
Hariharan, Lakshmi Kannan, Sujatha Mathai, Anuradha Marwah-Roy and
Mina Singh, Kuortti also presents extracts from their writings.
The title of this book - Changing Worlds, Changing Nations -
underlines the transforming status of the discourse on nationalism
and transnationalism. The book focuses on how the realities and
identities of people are influenced by the changes taking place in
the various dimensions of nation-states. The term
'transnationalism' sounds simplistic, yet it is not so explicit in
nature and is apparently enveloped in a myriad of confounding
applications. Transnationalism, as it is largely understood, is a
concept that disrupts and scatters the idea of centrality and
periphery. It may be properly conceived as: a kind of relationship
between nation-states, a crossing of national borders, a
cultural/political interplay between different national cultures,
or a mode of mobility of trans/national subjects. To be more
precise, transnationalism means a form of multi-nationalism;
something that shares cultural connections with more than one
nation. Changing Worlds, Changing Nations consists of 13
contributions that consider the feasibility of nation-states in a
transnational era and examine the role of language and culture in
seeking a new identity. The book focuses on the Indian context as a
case study of the thematic, but it extends this nationalistic
framework to reflect on other, wider contexts. The hope is that the
book as a whole, and the individual articles on their own, will
spark new discussions and analyses of literary works in view of
transnationalism. There is an ethical call that needs to be
addressed in order to maintain the relevance of discussions of
post-colonial and transnational issues.
Joel Kuortti's Writing Imagined Diasporas: South Asian Women
Reshaping North American Identity is a study of diasporic South
Asian women writers. It argues that the diasporic South Asians are
not merely assimilating to their host cultures but they are also
actively reshaping them through their own, new voices bringing new
definitions of identity. As diaspora does not emerge as a mere
sociological fact but it becomes what it is because it is said to
be what it is, the writings of imagined diasporas challenge
"national" discourses.Diaspora brings to mind various contested
ideas and images. It can be a positive site for the affirmation of
an identity, or, conversely, a negative site of fears of losing
that identity. Diaspora signals an engagement with a matrix of
diversity: of cultures, languages, histories, people, places,
times. What distinguishes diaspora from some other types of travel
is its centripetal dimension. It does not only mean that people are
dispersed in different places but that they congregate in other
places, forming new communities. In such gatherings, new
allegiances are forged that supplant earlier commitments. New
imagined communities arise that not simply substitute old ones but
form a hybrid space in-between various identifications. This book
looks into the ways in which diasporic Indian literature handles
these issues. In the context of diaspora there is an imaginative
construction of collective identity in the making, That a given
diaspora comes to be seen as a community is the result of a process
of imagining, at the same time creating new marginalities,
hybridities and dependencies, resulting in multiple
marginalizations, hyphenizations and demands for allegiance.The
study concentrates on eleven contemporary women writers from the
United States and Canada who write on South Asian diasporic
experiences. The writers are Ramabai Espinet, Jhumpa Lahiri, Amulya
Malladi, Sujata Massey, Bharati Mukherjee, Uma Parameswaran, Kirin
Narayan, Anita Rau Badami, Robbie Clipper Sethi, Shauna Singh
Baldwin, and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan.
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