This paper invites theoretical reflection on critical discourse analysis (Chouliaraki e Fairclough, 1999), cultural studies and postcolonial studies as sites of hybridity of complementary knowledges which inform studies of the role of language in the representations of hybrid cultural identities. A theoretical dialogue is proposed between Bakhtin's concept of textual hybridization - borrowed by critical discourse analysis as a fundamental notion in textual interpretation and expanded so as to account for genres pertaining to emerging discourses -, and Homi Bhabha's concept of cultural hybridity, also drawing on Bakhtin in order to explain ambivalence in postcolonial cultures. An analysis of the poem "Para ouvir e entender 'Estrela' ", by black Brazilian writer Cuti, is carried out in order to illustrate the potentiality of this theoretical dialogue for investigating cultural manifestations that seek to interrogate a concept and value system built on the basis of the denial of racial differences and their problematic insertion within the political and cultural territory of the nation.
Textual and cultural hybridity; Postcolonialism; Critical discourse analysis