Key Concepts in Post Colonial Theory

Notes on Hybridity:

Bakhtin (2004) states: The (...) hybrid is not only double-voiced and doubled-accented (...) but is also doublelanguaged; for in it there are not only (and not even so much) two individual consciousness, two voices, two accents, as there are [doublings of] socio-linguistic, consciousness, two epochs (...) that come together and consciously fight in out of the territory of utterance (...) It is the collision between differing points of view on the world that are embedded in these forms (...) such unconscious hybrids have been at the same time profoundly productive historically: they are pregnant with potential for new world views, with new ‘internal forms’ for perceiving the world in words.


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Noam Chomsky on Hegemony:

  

Uploaded on Apr 26, 2011

Renowned linguist, author, and dissident intellectual, Noam Chomsky, talks about the current state of the economy, the assault on social welfare programs and the prospects for resistance and hope in the years ahead. Noam Chomsky spoke at the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon, on April 20, 2011.

The program was sponsored by The Collins Distinguished Speaker Series and the Department of English of the University of Oregon at Eugene.

Racial Hierarchy, Hybridity, and Politics in the Americas

 

Uploaded on Apr 25, 2011

Colgate University, Monday, April 4, 2011

Michael Hanchard, professor at the JHU Krieger School of Arts & Sciences and co-director of the racism, immigration and citizenship program. His books include "Orpheus and Power: Afro-Brazilian Social Movements in Rio de Janeiro and S'o Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1988," and "Party/Politics: Horizons in Black Political Thought." Hanchard has done fieldwork in Brazil, the United Kingdom, Cuba, Colombia, Ghana, Italy, and Jamaica.