Hybridity and Its Mysteries: Heredity, Intertextuality, and Cultural Identity in the Caribbean

Writers Signify upon each other's texts by rewriting the received textual tradition. This can be accomplished by the revisions of tropes. This sort of Signifyin(g) revision serves, if successful, to create a space for the revising text. It also alters fundamentally the way we read the tradition, by defining the relation of the text at hand to the tradition.