Our Building Blocks: Hybridity, Diaspora, Hermeneutics, and the Identity of the Interpreter

Let us now discuss the three main conceptual frameworks that are used in this study: hybridity, diaspora, and interpretation. Let me also describe the particular situations which I shall employ to give shape to the particular kind of hybridity referred to here as well as the style of interpretation that arises from it, a style rooted ultimately in the identity of the hybrid interpreter. I begin then with hybridity, in particular, the one linked with the phenomenon called “diaspora,” which is generally the cause of it in the contemporary world.