Contents -- Contributors -- 'Introduction: Hybridity Today' -- Part One: Reconstructing Theories of Hybridity -- 'Hybridity and Cultural Rights: Inventing Global Citizenship' -- 'White Fatigue, or, Supplementary Notes on Hybridity' -- 'Postcolonial Desire: Mimicry, Hegemony, Hybridity' -- 'As a Tupi-Indian, Playing the Lute: Hybridity as Anthropophagy' -- 'Strategic Hybridity: Some Pacific Takes on Postcolonial Theory' -- 'From Nostalgia to Postalgia: Hybridity and Its Discontents in the Work of Paul Gilroy and the Wachowski Brothers' -- Part Two: Reading Hybridity -- 'Hybrid Constructions: Native Autobiography and the Open Curves of Cultural Hybridity' -- 'The Necessity and Impossibility of Being Mixed-Race in Asian American Literature' -- 'The Hybridity of the Asian American Subject in Cynthia Kadohata's The Floating World' -- 'Problematic Hybrid Identity in the Diasporic Writings of Jhumpa Lahiri' -- 'The Hybrid State: Hanif Kureishi and Thatcher's Britain' -- 'Performing British Identity: Fix Up and Fragile Land' -- 'Subaltern Envy? Salman Rushdie's Moor's Last Sigh' -- 'Postethnicity and Postcommunism in Hanif Kureishi's Gabriel's Gift and Salman Rushdie's Fury' -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- Y -- V -- W -- Z.