ABSTRACT
In general, Homi K. Bhabha's work helped provoke a shift from thinking about life or actions themselves to considering the ways in which those things might be represented. The Location of Culture is much more interested in language than action, forming part of what has been described as "the linguistic turn in cultural studies". The linguistic turn is understood as a change in emphasis from the documentation of lived experiences towards the analysis of the ways in which those experiences are represented, narrated, and discussed. Bhabha suggested that schools of thought can actually become "prisons of method, whether by the misplaced dogmatism of practitioners or in response to institutional and disciplinary hegemonies". Though Bhabha's ideas have spread across disciplinary boundaries, the majority of current scholarship engaging with his ideas lies within the field of English literature. Bhabha offers a theoretical language and framework for postcolonial scholars, and terminology such as "hybrid" is now standard across the discipline.
