Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha
provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that g
oes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses
concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cu
ltural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. Speakin
g in a voice that combines intellectual ease with the belief that theory itself
can contribute to practical political change, Bhabha has become one of the leadi
ng post-colonial theorists of this era.
