Boundaries on fire: hybridity and the political economy of culture
| dc.contributor.author | Krishnamurti, Sailaja Vatsala | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Kamboureli, Smaro | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-19T23:08:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-03-19T23:08:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2000 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of English | |
| dc.description.abstract | Current debates about globalization have generated interest in hybridity, a term which refers to the identities, representations and productions of people who live between cultures that are perceived to be fixed geographically. The complex relationships between producers and consumers of hybrid commodities constitute the political economy of culture. This economy obscures the hidden hegemonies within globalization, and makes authenticity the exchange value of cross-cultural commodities and their producers. Control over the production of hybridity is manipulated by transnational culture industries, in order to defuse the hybrid's transgressive properties and reclaim hybridity as symbol of global homogenization. This thesis examines several hybrid cultural productions and producers, including Deepa Mehta's 1997 film Fire; Star Rise, a 1997 tribute album to the late Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan; and musical groups Asian Dub Foundation and The Fire This Time. These examples illustrate the manipulation of hybridity within the political economy of culture. | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/23519 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | |
| dc.title | Boundaries on fire: hybridity and the political economy of culture | |
| dc.type | Thesis |