B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Coda: Critique of Hybridity – Whither Hybridity?
Authors: Ghasemi Mehdi
Editors: Joel Kuortti, Jopi Nyman, Mehdi Ghasemi
Publishing place: New York
Publication year: 2023
Book title : Echoes of Hybridity in Postmodern Literature
First page : 149
Last page: 167
Number of pages: 20
eISBN: 978-1-00-326967-0
Web address : https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003269670-6/coda-mehdi-ghasemi?context=ubx&refId=b5ce277c-ddd0-402e-a724-5d871b10bb6d
In the coda, we draw upon the main critiques and paradoxes of and objections to hybridity from the perspectives of different disciplines and discuss factors that deter acceptance of hybridity and arouse cross-cultural clashes that maintain binary thinking. It shows how anti-hybridity sentiments result in disintegration and formation of communities within communities, towns within towns. Furthermore, we discuss “post-ethnicity” and “post-hybridity” along with possible future development of the theories of hybridity in the study of literature. The theoretical discussions are supported by examples from literary works, mostly studied in the previous chapters.