This text conducts a selective survey of 12 authors from colonized cultures showing how each writer has necessarily created hybrid texts, in which the voice of the oppressed and the language of the oppressor blend, in order to find a space from which to speak. At work in these texts, Daniels shows, is an act of appropriation whereby the thinkers and writers of colonized cultures must learn the language of the colonizer and talk back to their community, thus making themselves translators who occupy a constructed hybrid space between two cultures. Covering three continents and over 100 years,...

In the twentieth century, as previously excluded groups, including ethnic minorities, women, the disabled, and the differently gendered, gained a voice in society, group identity also changed and new definitions became necessary. Whether through their group affiliations or in spite of these affiliations, many individuals sought a new definition of themselves. As can be expected, much literature explores these changes and depicts the quest for new definitions and the search for individuality in the light of new definitions. Construction or definition of the self was once available only to the...

This book examines works from twelve authors from colonized cultures who write in English: William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Joseph Conrad, Chinua Achebe, Maxine Hong Kinston, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Alic Walker, Sandra Cisneros, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Leslie Marmon Silko. The book fins connection among these writers and their respective works. Patsy Daniels argues that the thinkers and writers of colonized culture must learn the language of the colonizer and take it back to their own community thus making themselves translators who occupy a manufactured, hybdid space between two...