"Reading between the "posts
Systemic violence and the trope of hybridity in the postcolonial novel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2178634 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Hyland (0000-0002-1453-8210), John O Hyland (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 4-15 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2011.649359 |
| OpenAlex | W2070238388 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
The late-20th-century convergence of post-structural, postmodern and postcolonial theories has engendered a critical discourse network that privileges hybridity. These accounts contend that it (re)inscribes the agency of minority subjects, destabilizing hegemonic discourses, but, paradoxically, hybridity has become a stabilizing trope for – as well as the dominant way to read – the postcolonial novel. This essay discusses three postcolonial novels that "disidentify" with this master narrative of postcolonialism: Maryse Condé's Heremakhonon, Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters and Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night. When reread as performances enacted between the "posts", these novels suggest that hybridity can expose the systemic violence of colonial rationality
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Hegemony · Hybridity · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Postcolonial literature · Postcolonialism (international relations · Postmodernism · Sociology · Trope (literature · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Gender Studies · History · Law
Heremakhonon
The Postcolonial Exotic
Colonialism/Postcolonialism
The Caribbean Postcolonial
Feminism without Borders
Impossible Desires
Hybridity
The Archive and the Repertoire
Poetics of relation
Autobiographical Voices
A Shared Queerness
The Nigger of the Narcissist
Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |