The Location of Culture

Taylor & Francis, 1994 - Art - 408 pages

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.

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Not readeable, even to those familiar with the terminology associated with post-structuralism and post-colonialism. Further, the content is repetitive. I didn't like this book at all. Read full review

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Presidential Lectures: Homi Bhabha - Bibliography
“Lost in Space: Siting/Citing the In-Between of Homi Bhabha's The Location of Culture.” Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies 2.2 (1998). ...
prelectur.stanford.edu/ lecturers/ bhabha/ biblio.html

Homi K. Bhabha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In The Location of Culture, Bhabha advocates a fundamental realignment of the methodology of cultural analysis in the West away from metaphysics and toward ...
en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/ Homi_K._Bhabha

Blog Meridian: <em>The Location of Culture</em>, by Homi Bhabha
So then, I cracked open good ol'Homi Bhabha's The Location of Culture today; and (lucky y'all), I've decided that in order to stay on task AND keep the ...
blogmeridian.blogspot.com/ 2004/ 04/ location-of-culture-by-homi-bhabha.html

bhabha
"Signs Taken for Wonder" from The Location of Culture. NY: Routledge, 1994. ". . . the colonial presence is always ambivalent, split between its presence as ...
www.eng.fju.edu.tw/ Literary_Criticism/ postcolonism/ bhabha.htm

Homi K. Bhabha: an Overview
In "The Commitment to Theory," an essay collected in The Location of Culture (1994), Homi K. Bhabha foregrounds the unfortunate and perhaps false opposition ...
www.usp.nus.edu.sg/ post/ poldiscourse/ bhabha/ bhabha1.html

Reviews of Homi K. Bhabha's THE LOCATION OF CULTURE (1994)
"The Interstitial Perspective: A Review Essay on Homi Bhabha’s The Location of Culture." Environment and Planning D: Society & Space (June 1995), ...
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The Location of Culture (republished in Routledge Classics Series with a new preface, ... The Location of Culture has been translated into Korean, Spanish, ...
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The Location of Culture: Introduction: Border Lives: the Art of the Present ... "Signs of Our Times: Discussion of Homi Bhabha’s The Location of Culture. ...
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The location of culture. London and New York: Routledge. Carter, Paul. 1987. ... Signs of our times: discussion of Homi Bhabha's The location of culture. ...
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About the author (1994)

Homi K Bhabha (1949- ) Born into the Parsi community of Bombay, Bhabha is a leading voice in postcolonial studies. He is currently Professor of English and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University

Bibliographic information

Title	The Location of Culture Routledge Classics
Contributor	Homi K. Bhabha
Edition	2, reprint, revised
Publisher	Taylor & Francis, 1994
ISBN	0415336392, 9780415336390
Length	408 pages
Subjects	Social Science › Anthropology › Cultural Art / Popular Culture Literary Collections / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural

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