| The Location of Culture Contributor(s): Bhabha, Homi K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415336392 ISBN-13: 9780415336390 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2004 Annotation: Terry Eagleton once wrote in the Guardian, 'Few post-colonial writers can rival Homi Bhabha in his exhilarated sense of alternative possibilities'. In 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. A scholar who writes and teaches about South Asian literature and contemporary art with incredible virtuosity, he discusses writers as diverse as Morrison, Gordimer, and Conrad. In The Location of Culture, Bhabha 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2004018829 |
| Series: Routledge Classics (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.32" W x 7.76" (1.04 lbs) 440 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. |