Questioning Hybridity, Postcolonialism and Globalization [[electronic resource] /] / by A. Acheraïou

• Autore: Acheraïou A
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2011.
• Descrizione fisica: VIII, 223 s
• Disciplina: 809.933582
• Soggetto topico: Literature ; Literature—Philosophy; Culture—Study and teaching; Globalization; Imperialism; Postcolonial/World Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Imperialism and Colonialism
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Métissage, ideology, and politics in ancient discourses -- Myths of purity and mixed marriages from antiquity to the middle ages -- Interracial relationships and the economy of power in modern empires -- The ethos of hybridity-discourse -- Critical perspectives on hybridity and the third space -- Class, race, and postcolonial hybridity-discourse -- Postcolonial discourse, postmodernist ethos: neocolonial complicities -- Hybridity-discourse and binarism -- The global and the postcolonial: uneasy alliance -- Hybridity-discourse and neoliberalism/ neocolonialism -- Decolonizing postcolonial discourse.
• Sommario/riassunto: AcheraIou analyzes hybridity using a theoretical, empirical approach that reorients debates on métissage and the 'Third Space', arguing for the decolonization of postcolonialism. Hybridity is examined in the light of globalization, indicating how postcolonial discourse could become a counter-hegemonic ethics of resistance to global neoliberal doxa.
• Titolo autorizzato: Questioning Hybridity, Postcolonialism and Globalization
• ISBN: 1-283-15907-4; 9786613159076; 0-230-31851-7; 0-230-30524-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789441503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II