Reconstructing hybridity. post-colonial studies in transition.: 51 (Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature) - Hardcover

This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial theory and literature. The challenging articles written by internationally acclaimed scholars discuss the usefulness of the term in relation to such questions as citizenship, whiteness studies and transnational identity politics. In addition to developing theories of hybridity, the articles in this volume deal with the role of hybridity in a variety of literary and cultural phenomena in geographical settings ranging from the Pacific to native North America. The collection pays particular attention to questions of hybridity, migrancy and diaspora.

Joel Kuortti is Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Culture at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. He has published widely on Indian literature in English, especially on Salman Rushdie and women's writing. His publications include The Salman Rushdie Bibliography (1997), Place of the Sacred (1997), Fictions to Live In (1998), Indian Women's Writing in English: A Bibliography (2002) and Tense Past, Tense Present (2003). His current research is on the diasporic Indian women's writing in English. Jopi Nyman is Acting Professor of English at the University of Joensuu in Finland. His books include Men Alone: Masculinity, Individualism and Hard-Boiled Fiction (1997), Under English Eyes: Constructions of Europe in Early Twentieth-Century British Fiction (2000), Postcolonial Animal Tale from Kipling to Coetzee (2003), and Imagining Englishness: Essays on the Representation of National Identity in Modern British Culture (2005). He is currently completing a book about diasporic writing in Britain and the United States.