ABSTRACT
Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture at an important mid-point of his career, in that it distils his work up to 1994 and also indicates the ongoing direction of his themes and theories. The title The Location of Culture is a perfect introduction to Bhabha's intellectual project. In a sense, Bhabha's work has been consistently inconsistent, returning to the same concepts and questions, especially the nature of colonial identity, but from many different theoretical standpoints and sets of evidence. It was the publication of The Location of Culture that brought Bhabha into full public view and extended the critical engagement with his work well beyond the field of postcolonialism. It was not until The Location of Culture that clear lines of inquiry and the development of key theoretical terms within Bhabha's body of work became apparent to a broad readership. Bhabha established a fundamental theoretical language in which postcolonialism could express itself.
