Nights of Storytelling is the first book to present and contextualize the founding texts of New Caledonia, a country sui generis in the relatively little-known French Pacific. Extracts from literary, ethnographic, and historical works in English translation introduce the many vo…
Hybridity theory, the creative dissemination and restless to-and-fro of Homi Bhabha's Third Space or of Stuart Hall's politics of difference, for example, has opened up understandings of what may be produced in the spaces of cultural contact. This book argues that the particular…
A path-breaking analysis of hybridity in the literatures of the Francophone Pacific.
Behind the accounts of the first encounter and the tales of oral tradition: reading Kanak-New Caledonian texts as palimpsest -- Writing (in) the language(s) of the other: translation as third space -- Histories of exile and home: strategic hybridity -- Locating the first man in …
Hybridity theory, the creative dissemination and restless to-and-fro of Homi Bhabha{u2019}s Third Space or of Stuart Hall{u2019}s politics of difference, for example, has opened up understandings of what may be produced in the spaces of cultural contact. This book argues that th…
This title argues that the particularity of the forms of mixing in the literatures of the French Pacific country of New Caledonia contest and complexify the characterisations of hybrid cultural exchange.