The Location of Culture (Routledge Classics) (Volume 55)

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.

• Orientalism
• Culture and Imperialism
• Nation and Narration
• The Wretched of the Earth
• A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
• Discourse on Colonialism
• Black Skin, White Masks
• Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
• The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
• Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes