Hybridity theory replaces totalizing narratives with contingent local petits recits

Evidence

Within the discourses of hybridity, and of postmodernism more broadly, the new social agents are plural - multiple agents forged and engaged in a variety of struggles and social movements (Giroux, 1997). Conversely, hybridity theory is entirely opposed to universalism, traditionalism, and any idea of ethnic or cultural rootedness. In line with postmodernism’s rejection of totalizing metanarratives, exponents of hybridity emphasize the contingent, the complex, and the contested aspects of identity formation. Multiple, shifting, and, at times, nonsynchronous identities are the norm for individuals. This position highlights the social and historical constructedness of culture and its associated fluidity and malleability. It also posits contingent, local narratives - what Lyotard (1984) has described as petits recits - in opposition to the totalizing narratives of ethnicity and nationalism. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 913

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines hybridity theory’s core commitments: plurality, anti-universalism, contingency, and petits recits against totalizing narratives.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 913
• XREF: connects to: Totalizing analysis reveals progressive kernels inside ostensibly reactionary phenomena — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 223; Total plasticity and recomposability evacuate narrative’s capacity to generate care — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 761