ABSTRACT
In the wake of Homi K. Bhabha’s The Location of Culture, the fi gure of third space has become one of the main pillars of contemporary postcolonial theory: it has been taken up in a vast array of scholarship in literary and cultural studies as well as in the social sciences, but it has also become the focus point of heated debates on the alleged privileging of the migrant condition in Bhabha’s work or on the displacement of other forms of critical theory (such as Marxism) in his writings.1
