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This 6 page paper provides an overview of the concept of hybridity as introduced by Homi Bhabha in The Location of Culture and applies it to an understanding of Abraham's Promise by Philip Jeyaretnam and Emily of Emerald Hill by Stella Kon. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Postcolonial Hybridity , 10/2010 --properly! Culturally-relevant literature generally reflects the foundations of the
culture in which it was developed, often creating a view of major themes that have extended from cultural change. The concept of hybridity as outlined by Homi Bhabha in
The Location of Culture is based on the belief that colonialism led to the development of hybridity and the formation of cultural values and conflicts that extend from varied social
perspectives. Colonial hybridity, then, has become a means of identifying the change that occurred in the presence of colonial control, especially in the countries of Asia around the
turn of the 20th century. Abrahams Promise by Philip Jeyaretnam and Emily of Emerald Hill by Stella Kon reflect the kind of thematic influences of hybridity in the
postcolonial literature of Singapore and Malaysia. Bhabha maintained that hybridity is often used to understand the factors that led to the
displacement of dominant cultural perspectives and the integration of elements of imposed authority into the cultural perspective (161). Further, Bhabha maintained that hybridity is not a problem of
genealogy or identity between two different cultures which can then be resolved as an issue of cultural relativism. Hybridity is a problematic of colonial representation and the individuation that
reverses the effects of the colonialist disavowal, so that the other denied knowledges enter upon the dominant discourse and estrange the basis of its authority-its rules of recognition" (Bhabha 162).
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