| The Location of Culture Contributor(s): Bhabha, Homi K. (Author), Bhabha Homi, K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415016355 ISBN-13: 9780415016353 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $166.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 1994 Annotation: In b /b b i Location of Culture /i /b b /b, 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. br br b /b b i Location of Culture /i /b b /b 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. br br 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 He discusses writers such as Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, and Salman Rushdie; historical documents such as those on theIndian Mutiny and by missionaries; race riots and nationhood; and he builds on the work of important cultural theorists such as Frantz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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 93010757 |
| Series: Routledge Classics (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.75 lbs) 444 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |