From Nostalgia to Postalgia: Hybridity and Its Discontents in the Work of Paul Gilroy and the Wachowski Brothers

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From Nostalgia to Postalgia: Hybridity and Its Discontents in the Work of Paul Gilroy and the Wachowski Brothers

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Pages:: 121–135

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401203890_008

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Paul Gilroy proposes that we imagine a post-racist world both through political discourses outlined in the 1930s-60s by a very small group of intellectuals, and contemporary popular culture. The melancholic mood of parts of the UK derives from a refusal to face the loss of the Empire which had structured its political institutions and culture alike. However, ordinary peoples’ everyday production of the hybrid new is able to celebrate life in a post-post-colonial society. But Gilroy cannot put his faith in a popular culture which includes ‘hip-hop consumer culture’ and other American horrors. This article asks whether we can afford to simply write off all US popular culture? I take The Matrix for example. In all its forms – movies, comics, video games – this is a complex cultural text whose meanings are actively being changed from a worldwide online community with no obvious adherence to race or nation. This community might exemplify the cosmopolitan politics desired by Gilroy, and open to many through electronic communication.

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Reconstructing Hybridity

Post-Colonial Studies in Transition

Series: Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 51

E-Book ISBN:: 9789401203890

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2007

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- Literature and Cultural Studies
  - Postcolonial Literature & Culture
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