Deconstructing ‘Deconstruction’: Postcolonial Theory, Postmodernism and Poststructuralism
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Post-modernist turn, ambivalence, in betweenness and hybridity, Bhabha’s approachAbstract
This article establishes clear distinction between postmodernism and post-structuralism and argues that such key terms in Bhabha’s theorization of postcoloniality as ambivalence, inbetweenness and hybridity are derived from a postmodernist approach to issues of culture and indent and that this is a move away from the centrality accorded to language and linguistic issues in post-structuralism. Referring to the poststructuralist work of Derrida, de Man and Foucault and critically evaluating Bhabha’s approach in the it’s light, the article critiques the postmodernist turn in the postcolonial criticism.