Hybridity: Limits, Transformations, Prospects.(Book review)

Publication: Research in African Literatures

Publication Date: 22-JUN-08

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COPYRIGHT 2008 Indiana University Press

Hybridity: Limits, Transformations, Prospects

BY ANJALI PRABHU

Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.

xv + 185 pp. ISBN 978-0-7914-7042-8.

This is a stimulating and important book for anyone interested in the radical potential of the notion of hybridity or metissage in its many literal and metaphorical guises, as developed by such figures as Leopold Sedar Senghor in the francophone context and more recently by Homi K. Bhabha in the anglophone world. Anjali Prabhu approaches...

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