Questioning Hybridity, Postcolonialism and Globalization

AMAR ACHERAIOU (PhD, Sorbonne Nouvelle) has published extensively on modernist literatures, postmodernist thought, and postcolonial theories. He is the author of Rethinking Postcolonialism: Colonialist Discourse in Modern Literatures and the Legacy of Classical Writers (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); Joseph Conrad and the Reader: Questioning Modern Theories of Narrative and Readership (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009); and is the editor of Joseph Conrad and the Orient (forthcoming).

• Introduction PART I: HYBRIDITY, A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW: FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERN TIMES Métissage, Ideology, and Politics in Ancient Discourses Myths of Purity and Mixed Marriages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages Interracial Relationships and the Economy of Power in Modern Empires PART II: HYBRIDITY IN CONTEMPORARY THEORY: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT The Ethos of Hybridity-Discourse Critical Perspectives on Hybridity and the Third Space Class, Race, and Postcolonial Hybridity-Discourse Postcolonial Discourse, Postmodernist Ethos: Neocolonial Complicities Hybridity Theory and Binarism The Global and the Postcolonial: Uneasy Alliance Hybridity and Neoliberalism/Neocolonialism Decolonizing Postcolonial Discourse Conclusion Bibliography Index

'This is a fine and timely book that contributes with new perspectives to the current concern in postcolonial and cultural studies of broadening the scope of hybridity theory. AcheraIou's book expands our awareness of the history of hybridity and hybridity as a product of historical processes, which altogether refines the notion of hybridity as a theoretical concept. The book is very well-written and communicates difficult material in a lucid and inviting manner. It offers new, compelling and productive ideas to theorists and students in postcolonial and globalisation studies.' - Sten Pultz Moslund, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern Denmark