Amid the modernday complexities of migration and exile immigration andrepatriation notions of stable national identity give way to ideas aboutcultural hybridity... » 

Amid the modernday complexities of migration and exile immigration andrepatriation notions of stable national identity give way to ideas aboutcultural hybridity. The authors represented in this volume use differentforms of performative writing to question this process to ask how theproduction of new political identities destabilizes ideas about gendersexuality and the nation in the public sphere.Contributors use forms such as the essay poem photography and case study toexamine historically specific cases in which the notion of hybridity recastsour ideas of identity and performance the struggle for Aboriginal land rightsin Australia Bahian carnival the creolization and pidginization of languagein the Caribbean world queer videos and others. «