Sin/tax: grammar, hybridity and resistance in contemporary black poetry

Introduction: Hybridity in Contemporary Postcolonial Theory

in postcolonial studies with the exigencies that led to the founding of this academic discipline itself. Such exigencies arose from recognizing and studying situations of stark inequalities, which were held in place and legitimated by the various machinations of, or inherited from, colonialism. That is, in unpacking and examining hybridity today in some of its theoretical versions as well as sp...

Monomedial Hybridization in Contemporary Poetry

In his article "Monomedial Hybridization in Contemporary Poetry" the debate on hybridization tends to overemphasize the blurring of boundari types in all possible forms: combination of types within a given work (multimodal "image comics and photo-novels, sound poetry, etc.), adaptation and remediation one (filmic adaptations of novels or novelizations of films, for instance), and, more generall...

Teams in Grammar Systems: Hybridity and Weak Rewriting

Some new ideas in the theory of teams in grammar systems are introduced and studied. Traditionally, a team is formed from a nite number of sets of productions and in every derivation step, one production from each component is used to rewrite a symbol of the sentential form. Hence rewriting is done in parallel. Several derivation modes are considered, varying from using a team exactly one time ...

Introducing Books/ Plants in Contemporary Poetry: Ecological Criticism and Flora Imaginary: Fatemeh Mahmoudi

Beyond Black and White Essentialism, hybridity and Indigeneity

Non-Indigenous conceptions of Indigeneity have historically focused on controlling the socialization, mobility and reproduction of Indigenous people. In the Indigenous community, we have only recently begun to demarcate our own space in which to debate the nature of Indigeneity in Australia. To date, we have successfully deployed notions of Indigeneity, via the strategic essentialism of pan-Abo...