Includes bibliographical references and index.

Encounters of a Heterogeneous Kind: Hybridity in Cultural Theory / Sabine Mabardi -- National Reconciliation and Colonial Resistance: The Notion of Hybridity in José Martí / Amaryll Chanady -- Mestizaje: “I understand the reality, I just do not like the word:” Perspectives on an Option / Catherine Poupeney-Hart -- On Border Artists and Transculturation: The Politics of Postmodern Performances and Latin America / Román de la Campa -- Shifting Paradigms: From Transculturation to Hybridity: A Theoretical Critique / Abril Trigo -- A Non-Dialectic Heterogeneity: The Subject and Discourse of Urban Migration in Modern Peru / Antonio Cornejo Polar -- Dialogism and Historical Bakhtinian Poetics from the Perspective of Cultural Heterogeneity and Narrative Transculturation in Latin America / Françoise Pérus -- The Crossing of American Languages in Sainte dérive des cochons / Jean Jonassaint -- Memory’s Children and Redressing History: Critical Reflections on Obasan by Joy Kogawa—The Case of a Northern ‘Hybrid’ Novel / Jerry Zaslove -- Poison: Asians in the Fait Divers of Some Montreal Newspapers / Sylvie Dion -- Pursuing Hybridity: From the Linguistic to the Symbolic / Rita De Grandis -- Hybrid Religions in Highland Guatemala: Modernity, Tradition and Culture / Christopher Chiappari -- “Hybrid Cultures:” Modern Experience and “Institution Kunst” / Silvia L. López -- Territorial Signs as Ready-Mades / Raúl Antelo -- Metamorphosis as Fantasy of the Hybrid. Postmodern Horror and the Destiny of the Human Body in The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986) / Vicente Sánchez-Biosca1 -- Contributors / Rita de Grandis and Zilà Bernd.

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