B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Echoes of Hybridity in Postmodern Literature
Authors: Ghasemi Mehdi
Editors: Joel Kuortti, Jopi Nyman, Mehdi Ghasemi
Publishing place: New York
Publication year: 2023
Book title : Engagements with Hybridity in Literature
First page : 119
Last page: 148
Number of pages: 30
eISBN: 978-1-00-326967-0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003269670
Web address : https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003269670-5/echoes-hybridity-postmodern-literature-mehdi-ghasemi?context=ubx&refId=978953dd-509f-48e3-8821-35d79d4b04eb
This chapter studies the notion of hybridity in relation to postmodern literature. As an antithesis to essentialism and fixity, it shows how the plural, relative, and fragmented hybrids that abound in postmodern literature question hegemony, monologic forces, and metanarratives. The chapter introduces in theory and practice several hybrid postmodern techniques, including bricolage, historiographic metafiction, intertextuality, magical realism, palimpsest, and so on, to describe how mixed forms within postmodern literature function. The texts used as practical examples are Michelle Cliff's No Telephone to Heaven (1987), Suzan-Lori Parks's The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (1990), and Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses (1988).