The location of culture / Homi K. Bhabha ; with a new preface by the author.

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Bhabha, Homi K, 1949-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge classicsPublication details: New York : Routledge, 1994.Description: xxxi, 408 p. : 20 cmISBN:

0415336392 (pbk.)
9780415336390 (pbk.)

Other title:

Location of culture [Other title]

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DDC classification:

809.93358 BHA 23 000659

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Table of contents

Contents:

Introduction : locations of culture 1. The commitment to theory 2. Interrogating identity : Frantz Fanon and the postcolonial prerogative 3. The other question : stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism 4. Of mimicry and man : the ambivalence of colonial discourse 5. Sly civility 6. Signs taken for wonders : questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817 7. Articulating the archaic : cultural difference and colonial nonsense 8. Dissemination : time, narrative and the margins of the modern nation 9. The postcolonial and the postmodern : the question of agency 10. By bread alone : signs of violence in the mid-nineteenth century 11. How newness enters the world : postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation 12. Conclusion : 'race', time and the revision of modernity.

Summary: "In rethinking questions of identity, social agency, and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity, one that goes beyond previous attempts by others in trying to understand connections between colonialism and globalism. A scholar who writes about both metropolitan and diasporic literatures, as well as contemporary art, he discusses writers as diverse as Forster, Conrad, Gordimer, and Morrison. In The Location of Culture, Bhabha has reconceived concepts such as colonial mimicry, hybridity, and social liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent and transgressive."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : locations of culture
1. The commitment to theory
2. Interrogating identity : Frantz Fanon and the postcolonial prerogative
3. The other question : stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism
4. Of mimicry and man : the ambivalence of colonial discourse
5. Sly civility
6. Signs taken for wonders : questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817
7. Articulating the archaic : cultural difference and colonial nonsense
8. Dissemination : time, narrative and the margins of the modern nation
9. The postcolonial and the postmodern : the question of agency
10. By bread alone : signs of violence in the mid-nineteenth century
11. How newness enters the world : postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation
12. Conclusion : 'race', time and the revision of modernity.

"In rethinking questions of identity, social agency, and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity, one that goes beyond previous attempts by others in trying to understand connections between colonialism and globalism. A scholar who writes about both metropolitan and diasporic literatures, as well as contemporary art, he discusses writers as diverse as Forster, Conrad, Gordimer, and Morrison. In The Location of Culture, Bhabha has reconceived concepts such as colonial mimicry, hybridity, and social liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent and transgressive."--BOOK JACKET.

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