ABSTRACT
Bhabha’s work on postcolonial agency, as we have briefly touched upon in Chapter 1, averts many of these problems, even as it relies on poststructuralism. It foregrounds discursive colonial authority and subjection, yet retrieves subaltern subterfuge. It reconstructs a critical politics despite and because of hegemonic and orientalist representational systems. And it demonstrates the (im)possibility of a stable, sovereign subject — thus problematizing the subject, at least in the Enlightenment sense of the term — but still manages to assert creative and performative agency.
