ambivalence

Abstract
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.Read More →