New Hybridities: Societies and Cultures in Transition

Edited by Frank Heidemann and Alfonso de Toro. The articles in this volume are focusing on hybridities in new postcolonial contexts or in newly formed social arenas. They emphasize political dimensions of cultural processes in recognition of the fact that cultures never were or are monolithic but are always products of their own complex histories. The volume reflects a broad panorama of postcolonial debate about hybridity and its implications in different fields such as media, internet, film, photography, literature, languages, body, sexuality, migration, politics of nation and identity. These essays dealing with 'hybridity' were presented at the international conference New Hybridities, held in summer 2004 in a South German monastery, Kloster Seeon, organized by Frank Heidemann, director of the Graduiertenkolleg 'Postcolonial Studies' at the University of Munich, in collaboration with Alfonso de Toro, director of the Research Centre of Ibero-American Studies at the University of Leipzig. 274 Seiten, broschiert (Passagen; Band 6/Olms Verlag 2006)