B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Hybridity in Postcolonial Literary Contexts
Authors: Kuortti Joel
Editors: Joel Kuortti, Jopi Nyman, Mehdi Ghasemi
Publication year: 2023
Book title : Engagements with Hybridity in Literature: An Introduction
eISBN: 978-1-00-326967-0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003269670(external)
Web address : https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003269670-4/hybridity-postcolonial-literary-contexts-joel-kuortti?context=ubx&refId=26d9be6b-b766-45a6-8a2e-50a5d3021001(external)
This chapter discusses hybridity, its effects on emerging cultures, and how it relates to postcolonial literature. Hybridity, one of the thematic axes of the discourse of postcolonial cultures, is an operational articulation of ambiguity and changeability, showing the dynamics of opposition and resistance to the dominant colonial hegemony, offering a break with duality and opposition. From this creative field grows the discourse of postcolonial literature as a hybrid that goes beyond inert and monolithic identities. The chapter applies the concept of hybridity to the poem “Unhybrid” (2000) by the Indian Danish author Tabish Khair and offers three practical exercises.