基本信息出版社：Routledge
页码：464 页
出版日期：2004年09月
ISBN：0415336392
条形码：9780415336390
装帧：平装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Routledge Classics
外文书名：文化的位置

内容简介 Terry Eagleton once wrote in the Guardian, 'Few post-colonial writers can rival Homi Bhabha in his exhilarated sense of alternative possibilities'. In 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. A scholar who writes and teaches about South Asian literature and contemporary art with incredible virtuosity, he discusses writers as diverse as Morrison, Gordimer, and Conrad. In The Location of Culture, Bhabha 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.
作者简介 Homi Bhabha is Lecturer in English at the University of Chicago. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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'Bhabha is that rare thing, a reader of enormous subtlety and wit, a theorist of uncommon power. His work is a landmark in the exchange between ages, genres and cultures; the colonial, post-colonial, modernist and postmodern.' - Edward Said, Columbia University

'Homi Bhabha is one of that small group occupying the front ranks of literary and cultural theoretical thought. Any serious discussion of post-colonial/postmodern scholarship is inconceivable without referencing Mr. Bhabha. - Toni Morrison, Princeton University

'The Location of Culture is an exuberantly intelligent voyage of discovery and disorientation. Supple, subtle, and unafraid, its power lies in its remarkable openness to all that is challenging and unsettling in the contemporary world.'

- Stephen Greenblatt, Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University

'The Location of Culture has been extraordinarily fertile for work in a variety of fields: literature, geography, architecture, politics among them. Homi Bhabha is at once radical and subtle in his method of argument and his insights have been fundamental to the flourishing of post-colonial studies.' - Gillian Beer, University of Cambridge

'Bhabha's lightning raids into the past furnish Westerners with snapshots of a world more complicated, fluid, and unsettling than the one they thought they had inherited.' - J.M. Coetzee

'The work being done in my field, African and African-American Studies, is unimaginably richer because of Homi Bhabha's stunning contribution to literary, historical, and cultural studies. The breadth and depth of his analysis, and the razor precision of his writing, push us all to be better, more innovative scholars, and I thank him for it.'

- Henry Louis Gates, JR