HOMI BHABHA: FROM POSTCOLONIAL THEORIES TO TRANSCULTURAL POLITICS Cover Image

ХОМИ БАБА: ОД ПОСТКОЛОНИЈАЛНИХ ТЕОРИЈА КА ТРАНСКУЛТУРНИМ ПОЛИТИКАМА
HOMI BHABHA: FROM POSTCOLONIAL THEORIES TO TRANSCULTURAL POLITICS

Author(s): Igor Perišić
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Sociology, Comparative Study of Literature, History and theory of sociology, Social differentiation, Sociology of Culture, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Politics, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Универзитет у Крагујевцу
Keywords: Homi Bhabha; postcolonial theories; transcultural politics; hybridization; mimicry; cultural difference; ambivalence of colonial discourse; third space

Summary/Abstract: Homi Baba, American-Indian literary theorist and philosopher of cul- ture, is one of the key figures in postcolonial theory. His original contribution is in the introduction of the terms „hybridization“, „mimicry“, „cultural difference“,„ambivalence of colonial discourse“ and „third space“, which enriches the repertoire of postcolonial theories and problematizes these theories in the key of poststructur- alist philosophies, especially those of Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault. As a postcolonial literary and cultural theorist, Baba opposes binary divi- sions of theories / policies in The Location of Culture (1994) to try to show the true meaning of postcolonial theories. Of course, in order to arrive at this new practice, it was necessary to discuss some aporia into which his thought often falls, especially to develop a complicated dialectic of the ambivalence of post/colonial discourse. In parallel with postcolonial thought, Baba develops philosophy of culture, which is thematized in the second part of the text. In the essay „DissemiNation“ (1990), as a poststructuralist-inspired thinker he does not derive a systematic transcultural theory, but only deconstructively points to the „splitting points“ of the unison-understood Culture as a monolithic and monopolistic Western narrative.

  • Issue Year: XXIII/2022
  • Issue No: 78
  • Page Range: 139-149
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Serbian
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