| Description |
1 online resource (98 pages) |
| Series |
The Macat Library |
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Macat library
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| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Ways in to the Text -- Who Is Homi K. Bhabha? -- What Does The Location of Culture Say? -- Why Does The Location of Culture Matter? -- Section 1: Influences -- Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context -- Module 2: Academic Context -- Module 3: The Problem -- Module 4: The Author's Contribution -- Section 2: Ideas -- Module 5: Main Ideas -- Module 6: Secondary Ideas -- Module 7: Achievement -- Module 8: Place in the Author's Work -- Section 3: Impact -- Module 9: The First Responses -- Module 10: The Evolving Debate -- Module 11: Impact and Influence Today -- Module 12: Where Next? -- Glossary of Terms -- People Mentioned in the Text -- Works Cited |
| Summary |
Homi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters between the western colonial powers and the nations across the globe that they colonized. Colonization was not just an economic, military or political process, but one that radically affected culture and identity across the world. It is a field in which interpretation comes to the fore, and much of its force depends on addressing the complex legacy of colonial encounters by careful, sustained attention to the meaning of the traces that they left on colonized cultures. What Bhabha's writing, like so much postcolonial thought, shows is that the arts of clarification and definition that underpin good interpretation are rarely the same as simplification. Indeed, good interpretative clarification is often about pointing out and dividing the different kinds of complexity at play in a single process or term. For Bhabha, the object is identity itself, as expressed in the ideas colonial powers had about themselves. In his interpretation, what at first seems to be the coherent set of ideas behind colonialism soon breaks down into a complex mass of shifting stances - yielding something much closer to postcolonial thought than a first glance at his sometimes dauntingly complex suggests |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Bhabha, Homi K., 1949- Location of culture
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| SUBJECT |
Location of culture (Bhabha, Homi K.) fast |
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Group identity.
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Cultural fusion.
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Social Identification
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group identity.
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Cultural fusion
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Group identity
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Haydon, Liam, author
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| ISBN |
9781351353212 |
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1351353217 |
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