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The tension of amalgamation of two races, their culture, and religion has always remained simultaneously with the clandestine desire to transgress the borderlines of race as elucidated by Robert Young in the definition of colonial desire. The entire notion of hybridity revolves round this particular aspect and also impregnates several critical issues like multiculturism,syncretism,double consciousness and cultural difference. Hybridity is a metaphor which theorises ‘the black experience’ as ‘diasporic experience’ and delves deep into the problem of doubleness or double voiced structures. It is also utilised to highlight ‘the dialogue of power and resistance ,refusal or recognition. A socio-cultural hybrid is defined not by purity but by …show more content…

Both ideas revolve round unwanted adulteration of the race resulting in unfortunate and a critical scenario simultaneously for the pure one and the hybrid. Considering the other definitions of hybridity Robert .c. young’s conception appears to be more convincing, who opines that hybridity is manifested in a single process “though it can be described in unimaginative abstract terms far away from the dynamic dimensions of cultural formation and contestation.....it involves process of interaction that create new social transformation.”Colonial desire is a “covert but insistent obsession with transgressive inter racial sex, hybridity and miscegenation.” a deep disgust for the alien and irresistible attraction towards miscegenation is thus shown in perpetual contention. Cultural hybridity resulted from interracial sex disturbs the process of demarcating cultural and racial boundaries. Thus the colonial conception of culture or cultural hybridity is found to be in an inherently unstable situation. Simultaneously, it organises and obliterates racial boundaries. Eventually this desire to trespass the racial lines though, remains beneath the surface, but manifest itself in numerous ways, demonstrating the infirmness of the unwanted progeny which finally ends up with erosion, corruption and racial

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