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| Introduction : locations of culture | 1 | |
| 1 | The commitment to theory | 28 |
| 2 | Interrogating identity : Frantz Fanon and the postcolonial prerogative | 57 |
| 3 | The other question : stereotype, discrimination and the discourse of colonialism | 94 |
| 4 | Of mimicry and man : the ambivalence of colonial discourse | 121 |
| 5 | Sly civility | 132 |
| 6 | Signs taken for wonders : questions of ambivalence and authority under a tree outside Delhi, May 1817 | 145 |
| 7 | Articulating the archaic : cultural difference and colonial nonsense | 175 |
| 8 | Dissemination : time, narrative and the margins of the modern nation | 199 |
| 9 | The postcolonial and the postmodern : the question of agency | 245 |
| 10 | By bread alone : signs of violence in the mid-nineteenth century | 283 |
| 11 | How newness enters the world : postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation | 303 |
| 12 | Conclusion : 'race', time and the revision of modernity | 338 |
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James Johnson
reviewed The Location of Culture on January 25, 2011
The Location of Culture
Homi Bhabha seems to collect thinkers together, and take fragments of them and try to glue them together, but he does a really bad job of it. His typical adhesive is Lacanian nincompoopery (holy shit, spellcheck accepted that)(but not "Lacanian"), so I'm probably not the best interpreter. He's borderline unreadable, but then he has these moments of utter clarity and charm when riffing on Salman Rushdie or Roland Barthes, and you realize he has a lot of talent. Which makes me think he's probably trying too hard in the rest of the book.
A lot of thinkers I admire really dig Bhabha. Toni Morrison and Edwards Soja and Said were big speakers-out for him. He talks about the positivity of a liminal, borderlands, postcolonial sort of life, but without the charm or wit of Gilles Deleuze or Frantz Fanon or bell hooks. Could be better. There's a valuable armature under all this verbal upholstery, I know it, but it's hard to get at.
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