ABSTRACT
In The Location of Culture, Homi K. Bhabha questions the coherence of the ideas and discourses of European colonialism that had developed from the eighteenth century onwards. In doing so, The Location of Culture provides a powerful statement on behalf of postcolonialism. By fracturing the ideologies of the colonizers, Bhabha attempts to realign Western culture around the postcolonial, rather than colonial, project. The Location of Culture can be seen as a natural outcome of earlier developments in politics, critical theory, and the therapeutic method of psychoanalysis. It is important to remember that Bhabha's The Location of Culture is an anthology of essays produced over a decade. In 1985, when the first essay was published, the emergence of postcolonialism as a discipline was incomplete. Perhaps the most important transformation was brought about by the work of Bhabha himself, and in particular by his critical engagement with Orientalism.
