Homi K. Bhabha Books

Homi K. Bhabha ist einer der bedeutendsten Literaturtheoretiker der Gegenwart und neben Edward Said, Gayatri Ch. Spivak und Stuart Hall einer der maßgeblichen RepräsentantInnen der Postcolonial Studies. Der in Indien geborene Wissenschaftler entwickelte eine Reihe von Grundkonzepten für diese Disziplin. Begriffe wie Hybridität, Mimikri, Dritter Raum, Ambivalenz sollen die Formen beschreiben, in denen kolonisierte Völker in der Lage waren (und sind), der Gewalt und der Macht der Kolonisatoren zu widerstehen. Diesem Text liegt sein im Festsaal der Universität Wien gehaltener Vortrag »On Cultural Hybridity – Tradition and Translation« zugrunde.

Over the past 20 years, British-Iranian photographer and filmmaker Mitra Tabrizian has explored themes of alienation and the chasms between third and first worlds, taking cues from the writings of Baudrillard and Lyotard. Another Country continues the stark, uncanny realism for which Tabrizian is renowned.

The explosion will not happen today. It is too soon ... or too late.First published in English in 1968, Frantz Fanon's seminal text was immediately acclaimed as a classic of black liberationalist writing. Fanon's descriptions of the feelings of inadequacy and dependence experienced by people of colour in a white world are as salient and as compelling as ever. Fanon identifies a devastating pathology at the heart of Western culture, a denial of difference, that persists to this day. His writings speak to all who continue the struggle for political and cultural liberation in our troubled times.

A collection of essays celebrating the fact that English is no longer just an English' language. Contributors include Gillian Beer, Rachel Bowlby, Doris Sommer and Sneja Gunew.

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.