The Location of Culture by Homi K Bhabha

The Location of Culture by Homi K Bhabha

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Explains why the post-colonial critique has altered forever the landscape of postmodern discourse. This work examines the displacement of the colonizer's legitimizing cultural authority and looks at the cultural and political boundaries which exist in gender, race, class and sexuality.

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The Location of Culture by Homi K Bhabha

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.
'Bhabha is that rare thing, a reader of enormous subtlety and wit, a theorist of uncommon powerHis work is a landmark in the exchange between ages, genres and cultures; the colonial, post-colonial, modernist and postmodern.' Edward Said
Homi K Bhabha (1949- ) Born into the Parsi community of Bombay, Bhabha is a leading voice in postcolonial studies. He is currently Professor of English and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University
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ISBN 13 9780415054065
ISBN 10 0415054060
Title The Location of Culture
Author Homi K Bhabha
Series Routledge Classics
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 1994-02-10
Number of pages 304
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