Description
This critical engagement with some of the most prominent contemporary theorists of postcolonial studies reevaluates recent theories of hybridity and agency. Challenging the claim that hybridity provides a site of resistance to hegemonic and homogenizing forces in an increasingly globalized world, Anjali Prabhu pursues the ways in which hybridity plays out in the Creole, postcolonial societies of Mauritius and La Reunion, two small islands in the Indian Ocean, and offers an introduction to the literature and culture of this lesser-known region of Francophonie. She also reconsiders two major theorists from the Francophone context, Edouard Glissant and Frantz Fanon, through a provocatively Marxian framing that reveals these two writers shared more in common about agency and society than has previously been recognized.
About the Author
Anjali Prabhu is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Wellesley College.
Reviews
"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 metissage 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
Book Information
ISBN 9780791470428
Author Anjali Prabhu
Format Paperback
Page Count 204
Imprint State University of New York Press
Publisher State University of New York Press
Weight(grams) 290g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm
About the Author
Anjali Prabhu is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Wellesley College.
Reviews
"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 metissage 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
Book Information
ISBN 9780791470428
Author Anjali Prabhu
Format Paperback
Page Count 204
Imprint State University of New York Press
Publisher State University of New York Press
Weight(grams) 290g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm
