ABSTRACT
Homi K. Bhabha, the author of The Location of Culture, was born in the Indian city of Mumbai in 1949. Bhabha attended a private school and university in Mumbai, before moving to Oxford for his postgraduate work. Bhabha aimed to show that binary divisions like East–West were unstable and unsustainable and he developed two key concepts, hybridity and mimicry, in order to do so. The Location of Culture is now accepted as a seminal text in postcolonial thought and has gone through 13 editions since its publication. Bhabha continues to be an influential author in the field and his concepts have become standard in postcolonial theory and beyond. The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of postcolonial theory. The Location of Culture is also an excellent model of problem-solving; students in any discipline trying to work out the practical applications of a theory will benefit from the text.
