ISBN:
9780415194020
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (310 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Hybridity and its Discontents : Politics, Science, Culture
DDC:
305.8009
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈I〉Hybridity and its Discontents〈/I〉 explores the history and experience of 'hybridity' - the mixing of peoples and cultures - in countries such as America, Britain and South Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on contributors; Introduction:theconundrum of 'mixing'; 1 Sexual affronts and racial frontiers: European identities and the cultural politics of exclusion in colonial Southeast Asia; 2 Miscegenation, nation formation and cross-racial identifications in the early Francoist folkloric film musical; 3 From miscegenation to hybridity: mixed relationships and mixed parentage in profile; 4 Welcome home: between two cultures and two colours; 5 Deanimations: maps and portraits of life itself 1
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Reading genes/writing nation: Reith, 'race' and the writings of geneticist Steve Jones7 Hybridity's discontents: rereading science and 'race'; 8 Translating the past: apartheid monuments in post-apartheid South Africa; 9 Technologies of conversion: cloth and Christianity in Polynesia; 10 Re-dressing the past: the Africanisation of sartorial style in contemporary South Africa; 11 Hybridity in a transnational frame: Latin-Americanist and post-colonial perspectives on cultural studies; 12 Bad faith: anti-essentialism, universalism and Islamism
Description / Table of Contents:
13 The scent of memory: strangers, our own and othersIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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