The Location of Culture

1. Auflage 1994
ISBN: 978-0-415-01635-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 444 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 828 g

Reihe: Routledge Classics

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bhabha, Homi K

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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