A Study of Alice Walker's Hybrid Writing
by Wang Xiujie
About This Novel
Based on Homi Bhabha's theory of hybridity, this book explores how the American novelist Alice Walker combines traditional African American and Indian cultural elements with modern Western writing techniques and ideas in her novels, highlighting the hybridity of the text in terms of narrative, mythology, religious beliefs, and character creation, constructing a unique African American-Indian literary paradigm, showing the creative strategies and national consciousness they adopted to construct their own mixed identity under the oppression of white culture, and questioning the simplistic racial identity defined by the mainstream group. Analyzing Walker's works from the perspective of hybridity can not only further understand the characteristics of Walker's literary creation, but also help reveal the creative modes and literary characteristics of writers with similar mixed identities as Walker.
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