ABSTRACT
The social study of culture has been deeply enhanced by work within postcolonial theory. BHABHA in his writings on nationhood has been a central figure in the debates. He provides a detailed and difficult argument in which he makes the case that “nationhood” is not the starting-point of cultural identity, but its outcome. Nationhood is enunciated through discourse. Bhabha further argues that national identity is never unitary, but necessarily hybrid.
