The Location of Culture

Homi K. Bhabha

520 pages

Using concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity and liminality to argue that cultural production is always at its most prolific when it is ambivalent, the author proposes ideas for rethinking identity, social agency and national affiliation.

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Dedication Contents Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition Acknowledgements 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 Notes Index