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Homi Bhabha's "The Location of Culture" (Part 1/2)

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Baba's Interrogating Identity in the Second Chapter

Baba sees almost like an oppressive simulation effect where there is a consolidation under the icons and symbols of a given culture to solidify, sort of crystallize a cultural identity. So in the act of enunciation, the speaker is in Baba's term split. And this is a split I would contend is not just a binary split, but rather is sort of fractalization broken down into many parts that are then broken down to their end point nearly and then reformed, re-put together. We may reveal that the theoretical recognition of the split space of enunciation may open the way to conceptualizing an international culture based on inscription and articulation of cultures hybridity.

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