The Location of CultureIn The Location of Culture, Homi K. Bhabha sets out the conceptual imperative and political consistency of the post-colonial intellectual project. In a dazzling series of essays, he explains why the post-colonial critique has altered forever the landscape of postmodern discourse. The Location of Culture examines, among other things, the displacement of the coloniser's legitimizing cultural authority. It takes a searching look at the complex cultural and political boundaries which exist in between the spheres of gender, race, class and sexuality. Bhabha investigates and illuminates a diverse range of texts in a bold attempt to specify the moment and the place of both colonial and post-colonial perspectives. He discusses writers such as Morrison, Gordimer and Rushdie and historical documents such as those on the Indian Mutiny. |
Contents
Locations of culture | 1 |
1 The commitment to theory | 28 |
Frantz Fanon and the postcolonial prerogative | 57 |
Stereotype discrimination and the discourse of colonialism | 94 |
The ambivalence of colonial discourse | 121 |
5 Sly civility | 132 |
Questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi May 1817 | 145 |
Cultural difference and colonial nonsense | 175 |
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