The location of culture / Homi K. Bhadha.
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TextPublication details: London : Routledge, 1994.Description: xiii,285p. ; 24cmISBN: - 9780415016353 (cased) :
- 9780415054065 (pbk) :
- 9780415336390
- Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Imperialism in literature
- Colonies in literature
- Developing countries in literature
- Culture conflict in literature
- Politics and culture
- Cultural studies
- Literature: history & criticism
- Literary theory
- Literary studies: post-colonial literature
- Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
- Colonialism & imperialism
- National liberation & independence, post-colonialism
- Developing countries -- In literature
- Literature Related to Politics
- 809.93358 BHA
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Long Loan | TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone General Lending | 809.93358 BHA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 207875 |
Includes index.
Introduction: locations of culture -- 1.The commitment to theory -- 2.Interrograting identity: Franz Fanon and the postcolonial prerogrative -- 3.The other questions: 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 colonical 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.
Explains why the post-colonial critique has altered forever the landscape of postmodern discourse. This work examines the displacement of the colonizer's legitimizing cultural authority and looks at the cultural and political boundaries which exist in gender, race, class and sexuality.