Dialogues in the Diasporas: Essays and Conversations on Cultural Identity

This book stages a series of dialogical encounters, the necessary precondition for ongoing negotiations of identity in the modern world. Addressing the pleasures and dangers of cultural identity in the age of mass media and global migration, these essays range from a commentary on the redrawing of the boundaries of contemporary art to a mapping of the controversial theory of hybridity.

Interspersed with the essays are conversations with prominent writers and artists such as John Berger, Jimm...