In this article the author aims to outline the development and various applications of the term hybridity in cultural studies, and trace the various stages of its implementation in postcolonial representation. She furthermore wants to show that postcolonialism, as a 'continuing process of resistance and reconstruction' can be considered as a reading and writing practice which questions the production of knowledge of the Other. She first discusses several trends in cultural anthropology which analyse the ways in which ethnographic discourse is generated and sustained and which have proven effective for highlighting changes in cultural representation. She also looks at models of representation that have already been adopted, mainly in ethnography and gender studies, based on the concept of the space-in-between, which in turn is based on the concept of hybridization. Finally the author argues in favour of a postcolonial translation practice that emphasizes interventionist strategies, and that seeks to transcend dichotomising notions of translation.