...John Kucich Abstract Generic innovation has the potential to create strong new frameworks for political discourse. Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South hybridizes two nineteenth-century narrative genres—political melodrama and domestic fiction—to invite readerly involvement in the creation of new...

... forms of authorship that might emerge from a seizure of the Indian hand. I explore this fantasy in Flora Annie Steel's Anglo Indian novel The Potter's Thumb (1894), a text that simultaneously warns against the implications of creating a hybrid British and South Asian creative body. I conclude that her...

... calcification. In particular, I examine the uses to which the tropes of mutation and the figure of the mutant are put in a number of recent Johannesburg narratives. Mutation here is a logic of discontinuous transformation, distinct from “hybridity,” concerned less with mimicry and in-betweenness than...

... is that the situation is hard for her to detect until it is too late. This aspect of the novel anticipates the particular hardships of the twenty-first-century gig economy, at the core of which is the systematic representation of work as something other than work. I thus approach The Old Curiosity Shop as a hybrid text...

... in search of more subjective as well as more indigenous or even hybrid narrative forms. The seventies, however, mandated another generic shift. As the impoverishing effects of global capital development and the government's neoliberal policies became preponderant, Egyptian writers reoriented their writings...

... . Esty Jed . Unseasonable Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Fiction of Development . New York : Oxford UP , 2012 . Esty Jed , and Lye Colleen . “ Peripheral Realisms Now .” MLQ 73 . 3 ( 2012 ): 269 – 88 . Harris Richard . “ Development and Hybridity Made Concrete...

... cannot help but cast a horrific, negative light on the vogue in postcolonial studies for the celebra- tion of encounter, movement, and hybridity" fix). Here, Miller names what seems to be a broad and growing consensus: postcolonial studies is (and always was) a problem. AI- though the precise...

... Media.” New York Times 10 June 2010 < http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/opinion/11pinker.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=steven%20pinker%20mind%20over%20mass%20media&st=cse >. Rich Motoko . “Curling Up with Hybrid Books, Video Included.” New York Times 1 Oct. 2009...

... . Hybrid Cultures: Strategies for Entering and Leaving Modernity . Trans. Christopher L. Chiappari and Silvia L. López Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1995 . Geffray , Christian . A Causa das Armas: antropologia da guerra contemporânea em Moçambique . Trans. Adelaide Odete Ferreira. Porto...

..., “an anterior original self” shared by all black people (37, 51, 47). Goyal then challenges Gilroy’s elevation of diasporic subjects as “always constitutively hybrid and anti-essentialist” (56). For Goyal, echoing Robert Young, Hop- kins’s uncomfortable blend of essentialism and hybridity, realism...

... tradition. But be- ginning with Morrison and culminating in Lorde, Thomson affirms a postmod- em hybrid otherness worthy of celebration and "accommodation rather than compensation" (137). Morrison's and Lorde's physically disabled black women characters revise abnormal figures toward positive...

... and reinforce racial hegemony, menace and maintain the national narrative, d~sruptand preserve homogeneous space. Imitating blackness and whiteness was crucial to American self-creation, and while it resulted in a rie facfo hybridity, whites drew racial lines to protect their sense of cultural homo...

... enjoyed in the 1970s and 1980s. This lack of terminological consistency, however, is not merely for lack of consensus: it is symptomatic of the qualities of the aesthetic movement itself. Whatever we call our present moment, contemporary aesthetics are doggedly plural and hybrid, imagining that all forms...

... Victorian and Edwardian women writers experimented with genre hybridizations meant to break the stranglehold domestic ideology held on narratives of female political Bildung . A divergence in the way theorists think about the heterogeneity of genre, however, might explain why some of these experiments have...

... discussion, in post- colonial theory, of issues of hybridity, diasporic identity, and social agency. The figures and geographical setting upon which rests my discussion of Christian evangelicalism and its bearing on contemporary black African writing belong in the national-juridical entity...

... of this pedagogical tool to India in the form of the Gothic Victoria Terminus in Bombay, a building constructed to function as a "factory for the production of English identity" (79). However, this disciplinary space is hybridized by interior artwork depicting the flora and fauna of the tropical subcontinent...

... –79. Young , Robert . Colonial Desire: Hybridity in Theory, Culture, and Race . London: Routledge, 1995 . Eugenic Feminism: Asian Reproduction in the U.S. National Imaginary ASHA NADKARNI In an 1895 poem, "The Burden of Mothers: A Clarion Call to Redeem the Race...

..." and its emphasis on "hybridity" as another example of the extension of the values of modernist literature into post-modern theory-also falls short of accounting for the political and social effects of modernism, because it makes any affront to hegemony REVIEW I...

... of Kipling’s Imperialism .” Space and Place: Theories of Identity and Location . Ed. Carter Erica , Donald James , and Squires Judith . London : Lawrence and Wishart , 1993 . 221 – 40 . Randall Don . Kipling’s Imperial Boy: Adolescence and Cultural Hybridity . London...

... , the hybridization of the novel and the essay is so systematic and symbolically relevant that it led to the emergence of a new genre of the novel, the novel-essay, one of the most notable outcomes of the speculative turn in 1880s French narrative. This was the organic fusion of two distinct forms, the novel...