Hybridity
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34. Hybridity :
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—One of the most widely employed and most disputed terms in post-colonial theory, hybridity commonly refers to the creation of new "transcultural" forms within the contact zone produced by colonization.
It is the "in-between" space that carries the burden and meaning of culture and this is what makes the notion of hybridity so important.
It is the potential of hybridity to reverse the structures of domination in the colonial situation which is important thus depriving the imposed dominant culture not only of the authority that it has for so long imposed politically, but even of its own claims to authenticity.
