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In "Location of Culture," Homi Bhabha sets out the conceptual imperative and political consistency of the post-colonial intellectual project. In a provocative series of essays, Bhabha explains why the post-colonial critique has altered forever the landscape of postmodern discourse.
"Location of Culture" examines the displacement of the colonist's ligitimizing cultural authority; the margins of Western "civility" put under colonial stress; the complex cultural and political boundaries which exist between the spheres of gender, race, class, and sexuality; the place of language, psychic affect, and narrative discourse in the construction of social authority and cultural identity.
Bhabha investigates a diverse range of texts in a bold attempt to specify the moment and the place of both colonial and post-colonial perspectives. He discusses writers such as Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, and Salman Rushdie; historical documents such as those on the Indian Mutiny and by missionaries; race riots and nationhood; and he builds on the work of important cultural theorists such as Frantz Fanon and Edward Said.
'Bhabha is that rare thing, a reader of enormous subtlety and wit, a theorist of uncommon power. His work is a landmark in the exchange between ages, genres and cultures; the colonial, post-colonial, modernist and postmodern.' - Edward Said
| Acknowledgements | |
| Introduction: Locations of culture | p. 1 |
| The commitment to theory | p. 19 |
| Interrogating identity: Frantz Fanon and the postcolonial prerogative | p. 40 |
| The other question: Stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism | p. 66 |
| Of mimicry and man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse | p. 85 |
| Sly civility | p. 93 |
| Signs taken for wonders: Questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817 | p. 102 |
| Articulating the archaic: Cultural difference and colonial nonsense | p. 123 |
| DissemiNation: Time, narrative and the margins of the modern nation | p. 139 |
| The postcolonial and the postmodern: The question of agency | p. 171 |
| By bread alone: Signs of violence in the mid-nineteenth century | p. 198 |
| How newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation | p. 212 |
| Conclusion: 'Race', time and the revision of modernity | p. 236 |
| Notes | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 277 |
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ISBN: 9780415016353
ISBN-10: 0415016355
Series: Routledge Classics
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 304
Published: 15th March 1994
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 15.6
x 2.8
Weight (kg): 0.6
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