Main entry:

Bhabha, Homi K., 1949-

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Description:

xxxi, 408 pages ; 20 cm

Series:

Routledge classics

Notes:
Originally published: London : Routledge, 1994.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-396) and index.
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.

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."--Jacket

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ISBN:

0415336392 (pbk.)
9780415336390

Subject:

Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism.
Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism.
Imperialism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Culture conflict in literature.
Politics and culture.
Culture shock in literature.
Littérature 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Littérature 20e siècle Histoire et critique.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
Colonies dans la littérature.
Pays en voie de développement dans la littérature.
Conflit culturel dans la littérature.
Politique et culture.
Literature, Modern History and criticism. 19th century.
Literature, Modern History and criticism. 20th century.
Developing countries In literature.
Literature
Literature, Modern
Kolonialismus
Kulturkonflikt
Literatur
Postkolonialismus
Aufsatzsammlung
Letterkunde.
Cultuur.
Kolonialisme.
Postkolonialisme.
Westliche Welt.
Developing countries
Entwicklungsländer

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Routledge classics.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284850
Call No.: BIB 224082
Status: Available