Abstract: The introduction situates hybridity relative to both historical and contemporary concepts. Different theoretical models of hybridity are surveyed, including those developed by St. Augustine, Homi K. Bhabha, Michel Serres, and Jeffrey Jerome Cohen. The contributions to discussions of hybridity made by critical race studies, gender studies, disability studies, animal studies, and cyborg studies are also considered. The introduction establishes the theoretical framework of the argument: hybridity is unlike other constructs of difference such as alterity, class, ethnicity, and race. While these four fixate upon difference, hybridity, although grounded in difference, points towards sameness, what is held in common. Hybridity therefore possesses the capacity to extinguish itself whereas the other four inflame their difference instead. The four main chapters of the book are case studies of four different types of hybridity evident in the literature of medieval England. Each type illustrates hybridity’s capacity to extinguish itself.
Publication Year: 2023
Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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