Power, Postcoloniality, Diaspora and Hybridity in Communicative and Cultural Contexts

• In Event: The More Things Change…: Economic Disparity, Power, and the Changing Electoral Landscape in the African American Community

Abstract

The ways in which power has complicated notions of postcoloniality, diaspora and hybridity are explored in this essay. I draw upon theories of power put forth by Michel Foucault and use them to analyze scholarship on postcoloniality, diaspora and hybridity. My essential claim is that postcoloniality, diaspora and hybridity radically complicate and destabilize traditional notions of identity, and function as evidence of the perpetual unfixity of power.

Author

• Nneka Logan, Georgia State University