The Location of Culture Book

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.