Homi K. Bhabha

In rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity. Bhabha uses such concepts as mimicry to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent.

The Location of Culture

Andrew Ross

Manning Marable

Nellie Y. McKay

Cornel West

Nell Irvin Painter

Patricia J. Williams

Kendall Thomas

Kimberlé Crenshaw

Michael Thelwell

Margaret A. Burnham

Paula Giddings

A. Leon Higginbotham

Claudia Brodsky Lacour

Wahneema H. Lubiano

Gayle Pemberton

Christine Stansell

Carol Miller Swain

Eighteen essays by prominent scholars reflect on the cultural, historical, political, personal, legal, sexual, and linguistic implications of the Thomas hearings and Hill's accusations

Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality

Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power

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.

Nation and Narration

Anish Kapoor

Pier Luigi Tazzi

Anish Kapoor is an internationally acclaimed artist who came to prominence in the 1980s. His sculptures invoke the sublime and provoke an intense spiritual and physical response. A wide range of Kapoor's work is featured in this book including sculptures in which he explores the concept of the 'void'. Kapoor cuts deep into blocks of stone, sometimes coating the interior surfaces with a rich pigment, transforming the void into a charged, dark space. He also works with reflective surfaces which appear to engulf the viewer and the surrounding space.

In Location of Culture, Homi Bhabha sets out the conceptual imperative and political consistency of the post-colonial intellectual project. In a provocative series of essays, Bhabha explains why the post-colonial critique has altered forever the landscape of postmodern discourse. Location of Cultureexamines the displacement of the colonist's ligitimizing cultural authority; the margins of Western "civility" put under colonial stress; the complex cultural and political boundaries which exist between the spheres of gender, race, class, and sexuality; the place of language, psychic affect, and narrative discourse in the construction of social authority and cultural identity. Bhabha investigates a diverse range of texts in a bold attempt to specify the moment and the place of both colonial and post-colonial perspectives. He discusses writers such as Toni Morrison, Nadine Gordimer, and Salman Rushdie; historical documents such as those on the Indian Mutiny and by missionaries; race riots and nationhood; and he builds on the work of important cultural theorists such as Frantz Fanon and Edward Said.

With the Hegel Lecture 2010, held by Homi K. Bhabha, the Dahlem Humanities Center is launching the Open Access publication of the series. In his talk, Bhabha evokes the spirit of Hegel in an attempt to understand contemporary issues of ethical witness, historical memory and the rights and representations of minorities in the cultural sphere. Who is our neighbour today? What does hospitality mean for our times? Why is the recognition of others such an agonizing encounter with the alterity of the self? The lecture examplifies how the “Third Space” - one of the key theories of Postcolonialism - helps us to establish a new understanding of cosmopolitanism and hospitality in a globalized world, based on the right of difference in equality.

Contemporary Reflections on Survival

Our Neighbours, Ourselves

“Quando diventiamo un popolo? Quando smettiamo di esserlo? E quanto incidono queste enormi questioni sui nostri rapporti con ogni altro e con tutti gli altri?”. A partire da tali domande si articolano i saggi raccolti in Nazione e narrazione, divenuto ormai un classico degli studi postcoloniali. Homi K. Bhabha riunisce i principali studiosi che si sono interrogati sulla rappresentazione culturale dell’ambivalenza della società moderna, cercando di definire come l’immagine ambigua della nazione tragga origine dalla sua storia in continua transizione, dal suo oscillare tra differenti vocabolari. Da Joseph-Ernest Renan a Gillian Beer, gli autori qui presentati percorrono la tradizione del pensiero politico e il linguaggio letterario dai quali ha origine l’idea storica di nazione in Occidente. Con scritti di John Barrell, Gillian Beer, Geoffrey Bennington, Homi K. Bhabha, Rachel Bowlby, Timothy Brennan, Simon During, Sneja Gunew, Francis Mulhern, Joseph-Ernest Renan, Bruce Robbins, David Simpson, James A. Snead, Doris Sommer, Martin Thom. Introduzione all’edizione italiana di Mariella Pandolfi.

Nazione e narrazione

Sheldon Pollock

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Carol A. Breckenridge

As the final installment of Public Culture’s Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism—or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one’s particular society. With contributions from distinguished scholars in disciplines such as literary studies, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this volume recenters the history and theory of translocal political aspirations and cultural ideas from the usual Western vantage point to areas outside Europe, such as South Asia, China, and Africa. By examining new archives, proposing new theoretical formulations, and suggesting new possibilities of political practice, the contributors critically probe the concept of cosmopolitanism. On the one hand, cosmopolitanism may be taken to promise a form of supraregional political solidarity, but on the other, these essays argue, it may erode precisely those intimate cultural differences that derive their meaning from particular places and traditions. Given that most cosmopolitan political formations—from the Roman empire and European imperialism to contemporary globalization—have been coercive and unequal, can there be a noncoercive and egalitarian cosmopolitan politics? Finally, the volume asks whether cosmopolitanism can promise any universalism that is not the unwarranted generalization of some Western particular. Contributors. Ackbar Abbas, Arjun Appadurai, Homi K. Bhabha, T. K. Biaya, Carol A. Breckenridge, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ousame Ndiaye Dago, Mamadou Diouf, Wu Hung, Walter D. Mignolo, Sheldon Pollock, Steven Randall

Cosmopolitanism

Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'. From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, Rachel Bowlby's cultural history of Uncle Tom's Cabin and Francis Mulhern's study of Leaviste's 'English ethics'; to Doris Sommer's study of the 'magical realism' of Latin American fiction and Sneja Gunew's analysis of Australian writing, Nation and Narration is a celebration of the fact that English is no longer an English national consciousness, which is not nationalist, but is the only thing that will give us an international dimension.

The Real Me

Identity

Orhan Pamuk

Fereshteh Daftari

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 26 February - 22 May 2006.

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