{"id":13523,"date":"2011-04-28T01:55:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T01:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13523"},"modified":"2011-04-28T02:55:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T02:55:31","slug":"playful-ambiguities-racial-and-literary-hybridity-in-the-novels-of-brian-castro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13523","title":{"rendered":"Playful ambiguities: racial and literary hybridity in the novels of Brian Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/repository.unimelb.edu.au\/10187\/9635\" target=\"_blank\">Playful ambiguities: racial and literary hybridity in the novels of Brian Castro<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Melbourne<br \/>\nUniversit\u00e9 Toulouse-le Mirail<br \/>\n2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marilyne Brun<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>PhD thesis, Arts &#8211; School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne and Universit\u00e9 Toulouse-le Mirail.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This thesis studies eight of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lythrumpress.com.au\/castro\/novels.html\" target=\"_blank\">nine novels<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lythrumpress.com.au\/castro\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Castro<\/a>, a contemporary Australian writer born in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hong_Kong\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong<\/a> in 1950, and focuses on the theme of hybridity in his work. Starting with the observation that many of Castro\u2019s characters are mixed-race, the thesis reflects on his suggestion, in his critical essays, that hybridity is deployed at a literary level in his fiction. It seeks to answer three major questions: how is racial hybridity represented in the novels? Why does Castro use a form of literary hybridity in his fiction? And what connections can be established between racial and literary hybridity in his work? The present study argues that hybridity is a useful concept which can be productively applied to literary studies and is particularly appropriate to discuss Castro\u2019s novels. It focuses on two aspects of his literary practice: his use of hybridity as a literary device and his ambiguous representation of the mixed-race body. It argues that racial and literary hybridity are uniquely complementary in the novels and that Castro\u2019s playful resort to hybridity represents a form of resistance to literary canons, racial categorisation and national politics. In this sense, the thesis not only extends the study of Brian Castro\u2019s novels, it also brings new insights to hybridity theory, thus contributing to postcolonial, literary and critical race studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playful ambiguities: racial and literary hybridity in the novels of Brian Castro University of Melbourne Universit\u00e9 Toulouse-le Mirail 2010 Marilyne Brun PhD thesis, Arts &#8211; School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne and Universit\u00e9 Toulouse-le Mirail. This thesis studies eight of the nine novels of Brian Castro, a contemporary Australian writer born in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,838,1196,8,4405],"tags":[6163,6160,6162,6161],"class_list":["post-13523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-dissertations","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-oceania","tag-brian-castro","tag-marilyne-brun","tag-universite-toulouse-le-mirail","tag-university-of-melbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}