The Location of Culture

In this book, Homi Bhabha sets out the conceptual imperative and political consistency of the post-colonial intellectual project, explaining why the culture of western modernity must be relocated from the post-colonial perspective. It also brings together some of the most seminal writings in the fields of literary theory and cultural criticism.

Includes index.

Access level

Onsite

author

Homi K. BHABHA

publisher

Routledge (London, United Kingdom)

Location code

REF.BHH

Language

English

Keyword

cultural studies, postcolonialism, modernity, identity, race

Publication/Creation date

2003

No of pages

285

ISBN / ISSN

0415054060

No of copies

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

Introduction: Locations of culture

The commitment to theory

Interrogating identity: Frantz Fanon and the postcolonial prerogative

The other question: Stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism

Of mimicry and man: The ambivalence of colonial discourse

Sly civility

Signs taken for wonders: Questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817

Articulating the archaic: Cultural difference and colonial nonsense

DissemiNation: Time, narrative and the margins of the modern nation

The postcolonial and the postmodern: The question of agency

By bread alone: Signs of violence in the mid-nineteenth century

How newness enters the world: Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation

Conclusion: 'Race', time and the revision of modernity

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