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Genre/Form: | estudio |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Homi K Bhabha |
ISBN: | 0415054060 9780415054065 0415016355 9780415016353 |
OCLC Number: | 318323359 |
Description: | xiii, 285 p. ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Locations of culture -- 1. The commitment to theory -- 2. Interrogating identity: Frantz Fanon and the postcolonial prerogative -- 3. The other question: 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 colonial 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. |
Responsibility: | Homi K. Bhabha. |
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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 Read more...

