Hybrid Heaven: Bricolage, Global Mixture, and Crafting a Third Thing

How does hybridity shape identity and culture? What new possibilities arise when we connect across languages, cultures, time and space? In this episode of Backlit, poet and scholar Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss joins me in imagining possibilities for the future, inspired by his latest poetry collection Hybrid Heaven and Other(ed) Poems. Imaginative and liberating, Moss’s work examines how the blending of cultures, languages, ideas, time, and space creates new possibilities for literature and life.

Topics discussed:

• Hybridity and literary influences
• Afropean influences in music, fashion, and literature
• Bricolage and growing up with a hybridity of cultures
• Afrofuturism in contemporary culture
• Global and extraplanetary exploration
• Building your own “library for liberation”
• Connecting with people across languages and cultures
• Crafting a third thing

Links:

• Episode Webpage
• Purchase Hybrid Heaven by Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss
• Purchase Japanapandon by Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss
• Author Website: Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss