Moving beyond Edward Said: Homi Bhabha and the Problem of Postcolonial Representation
The essay takes up the issue of postcolonial representation in terms of a critique of European modernism that has been symptomatic of much postcolonial theoretical debates in the recent years. It tries to enumerate the epistemic changes within the paradigm of postcolonial theoretical writing that be...
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| description | The essay takes up the issue of postcolonial representation in terms of a critique of European modernism that has been symptomatic of much postcolonial theoretical debates in the recent years. It tries to enumerate the epistemic changes within the paradigm of postcolonial theoretical writing that began tentatively with the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 and has taken a curious postmodern turn in recent years with the writings of Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha. The essay primarily focuses on Bhabha’s concepts of ambivalence and mimicry and his politics of theoretical anarchism that take the representation debate to a newer height vis-ŕ-vis modes of religious nationalism and Freudian psychoanalysis. It is interesting to see how Bhabha locates these within a postmodern paradigm. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7186daf9edc44ab099161e400466a1622022-12-21T21:32:21ZengLodz University PressInternational Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal2300-86952012-11-0114152110.2478/v10223-012-0051-36882Moving beyond Edward Said: Homi Bhabha and the Problem of Postcolonial RepresentationSumit Chakrabarti0Department of English, Rabindra Bharati UniversityThe essay takes up the issue of postcolonial representation in terms of a critique of European modernism that has been symptomatic of much postcolonial theoretical debates in the recent years. It tries to enumerate the epistemic changes within the paradigm of postcolonial theoretical writing that began tentatively with the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism in 1978 and has taken a curious postmodern turn in recent years with the writings of Gayatri Spivak and Homi Bhabha. The essay primarily focuses on Bhabha’s concepts of ambivalence and mimicry and his politics of theoretical anarchism that take the representation debate to a newer height vis-ŕ-vis modes of religious nationalism and Freudian psychoanalysis. It is interesting to see how Bhabha locates these within a postmodern paradigm.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/international/article/view/6882postcolonialismrepresentationedward saidhomi bhabhagayatri spivakpostmodernismthird world/first worldmimicryreligious nationalismambivalence |
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| title | Moving beyond Edward Said: Homi Bhabha and the Problem of Postcolonial Representation |
| title_full | Moving beyond Edward Said: Homi Bhabha and the Problem of Postcolonial Representation |
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| title_short | Moving beyond Edward Said: Homi Bhabha and the Problem of Postcolonial Representation |
| title_sort | moving beyond edward said homi bhabha and the problem of postcolonial representation |
| topic | postcolonialism representation edward said homi bhabha gayatri spivak postmodernism third world/first world mimicry religious nationalism ambivalence |
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