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Record Nr.

UNINA9910169194803321

Autore

Kraidy Marwan <1972->

Titolo

Hybridity, or the cultural logic of globalization / / Marwan M. Kraidy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-281-09388-2

9786611093884

1-59213-145-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Cultural fusion

Communication, International

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-210) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Cultural Hybridity and International Communication; 2 Scenarios of Global Culture; 3 The Trails and Tales of Hybridity; 4 Corporate Transculturalism; 5 The Cultural and Political Economies of Hybrid Media Texts; 6 Structure, Reception, and Identity: On Arab-Western Dialogism; 7 Hybridity without Guarantees: Toward Critical Transculturalism; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The intermingling of people and media from different cultures is a communication-based phenomenon known as hybridity. Drawing on original research from Lebanon to Mexico and analyzing the use of the term in cultural and postcolonial studies (as well as the popular and business media), Marwan Kraidy offers readers a history of the idea and a set of prescriptions for its future use.Kraidy analyzes the use of the concept of cultural mixture from the first century A.D. to its present application in the academy and the commercial press. The book's case studies build an argument for understanding th