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Sultan Molay Slimane University Faculty of Letters and Humanities SLCE Master Program 2016/2017 Cultural Translation SADIK SAMLALI Homi K. Bhabha: The Location of Culture (1994) INTRODUCTION â€Å"Locations of culture† In his book The Location of Culture (1994), Homi. K Bhabha tries to explore the question of how can we understand postcolonial cultures and to know where can we locate them. It is a seminal work that can be located within the sphere of multi-cultural awareness which emerged in 1990s to open horizons for studies on how hybridity and cosmopolitanism affects identity and culture. This book is also an attempt to go beyond what other preceding works stopped at. If E. Said (1978) focuses on the opposing binaries of west/non-west to argue on how cultures and identities should be described, Bhabha goes beyond such binaries through challenging that ideas that postcolonial cultures are the result of a monolithic and organic classification of human groups and that an individual’s identity is a mere consequence of fixed patterns of language manifesting in education, politics, gender, etc. On the contrary, Bhabha contends that cultural hybridity is the appropriate frame through which individuals and groups can be described and identified. For him, cultural hybridity has the ability to shape/reshape the individual as well as its identity. 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