ABSTRACT
The Location of Culture remains one of Homi K. Bhabha's most influential texts. Bhabha's arguments were developed over many years, in different occasional pieces, before being collected in The Location of Culture. Additional material added to the volume, especially the introduction, helps Bhabha draw together the threads of his thought and establish that "the cultural and historical hybridity of the postcolonial world is taken as the paradigmatic place of departure". The arguments that Bhabha is making throughout the book have become widely accepted, even commonplace, among postcolonial theorists and thinkers. By the end of the twentieth century, critics of The Location of Culture claimed that Bhabha's formulations were no longer relevant. Bhabha's work, then, risks itself becoming in between; in trying to bring together European thought and Asian experience, it risks belonging to neither category. Bhabha's key contribution was to destabilize both terms and establish the intellectual tradition of "interrogating 'identity' rather than asserting its inviolability".
