The Location of Culture

Homi K. Bhabha

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Author
Homi K. Bhabha
Publish Date
2004-09-01
Book Type
Paperback
Publisher Name
ROUTLDG
Number of Pages
408
Edition
2
ISBN-10
0415336392
ISBN-13
9780415336390
SKU
9780415336390

Description

'Homi Bhabha is one of that small group occupying the front ranks of cultural theoretical thought. Any serious discussion of post-colonial/postmodern scholarship is inconceivable without referencing Mr. Bhabha.' -- Toni Morrison

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity -- one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. Speaking in a voice that combines intellectual ease with the belief that theory itself can contribute to practical political change, Bhabha has become one of the leading post-colonial theorists of this era.