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Title: Nation and Narration by Homi K. Bhabha ISBN: 0-415-01483-2 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: July, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Homi K. Bhabha
Comment: How unfortunate that the previous reviewer had to resort to questioning a fellow reader's intellect and ability to read what is undoubtedly a complicately structured text. This type of comment epitimises the elitism that Bhabha is himself charged with. The inaccessability of this text to the wide majority of readers(and that is not due to a need for reading classes) has left Bhabha's 'liminal space' an area of discussion accessible only to a handful of individuals whose academic capital apparently surpasses that of their humility. There is no attempt made at any point in this book to explain what are undoubdtedly fascinating concepts in laymans terms, thereby excluding the vast majority of readers of all social strata for whom reading is a pleasure and not a struggle .
Rating: 5
Summary: Enriching Experience
Comment: I was mystified by the ignorance of a previous reviewer whose implications that Bhabha could not write clearly showed not only his stupidity, but perhaps also a marked LACK of reading classes. could i perhaps suggest to this gentleman that he take a reading class so that he is better equipped to deal with the prose, poetry and magic that abounds within this most important and significant of post-colonial discourses.
Rating: 4
Summary: The polemic usefulness
Comment: I don't like Homi Bhabha and I deeply dislike poscolonialist approaches. I think, as a passionate for literature that these theories have lead to forget the aesthetics of reading. I agree that Europe has crushed the periphery and all those ideas but I also don't believe that the solution is to create dangerous identities as totalizing as the European impositions. Nonetheless, I recognize that this book is very useful for anybody trying to understand the concept of nation. Bhabha articulates not very convincingly Fanon and Derrida, but the essays of Brennan and Sommer are excellent and the recovery of Renan's concept provides an excellent counterpoint. The book is a must for anybody interested in the topic, but still does not substite the reading of Said, Fanon and Benedict Anderson.
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Title: The Location of Culture by Homi K. Bhabha, Homi K. Bhadha ISBN: 0415054060 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: February, 1994 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism by Benedict Anderson ISBN: 0860915468 Publisher: Verso Books Pub. Date: July, 1991 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Culture and Imperialism by Edward W. Said ISBN: 0679750541 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 31 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak ISBN: 0415900026 Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Orientalism by Edward W. Said ISBN: 039474067X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 October, 1979 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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