Bhabha H. The Location of Culture

London: Routledge; 2004 — 440 p. — ISBN10: 0415336392; ISBN13: 978-0415336390.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.Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Locations of cultureThe 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 modernityNotes