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    Homi K. Bhabha The Location of Culture i Routledge Classics contains the very best of Routledge i publishing over the past century or so, books that hav by popular consent, become established as classics in their field. Drawing on a fantastic heritage of innovative } writing published by Routledge and its associated Imprints, this series makes available in attractive, affordable form some of the most important works of ‘modern times. For a complete list of titles visit wowroutledgeclassics.com With a new preface by the author | | | 5 London and New York 1994 302 re tocarion or cucrure stall all soon be made Christians ... and then the whole county wil Be rained ‘When the body ofthe sipal comes to be hybridized in dhe ‘Gtwulton of cryptic omens, then new ‘rng’ uniforms become the source of primal fears, The fery oss tums lato Tigh hat or a at, unlesvened bread. The "east of modem ‘tuses archaic fears to aise; politi signs and contagious por ‘ents inhabit the body of ee peoples this pane, writen oe sipa’s ski, che omen that sends rumour and rebelion on het Aight 1 this the maraive of ‘aave™ hysteria? Beyond these ‘questions you can hear the storm break. The rest History 11 HOW NEWNESS ENTERS. THE WORLD Postmodern space, postcolonial times and the trials of cultural translation Tston passes dough com of wanfonmston, not stata len oferty an sina ‘ater Berjamin, On langage 2 uch andthe | NEW WORLD BORDERS cs radia perversity, not age pola wisdom, that ives the ineriguing wllto knowledge of postcolonial discourse, Why ele o you think the lng shadow of Conrad's He of itines ils on so many texts ofthe pestolonal pedagogy? Maslow has rach Jn him ofthe ant-foundationalie, he metropolitan soni who Delieres tht the neo-pragmatie universe is best preserved by 304 re ocaniow oF cusrune Keeping the conversation of humankind going And so he does, ‘in that intceate end-game that i best known to readers of the novel asthe ‘ie’ tothe Intended. Although the Aftan wilder es has fllowed him into the lofty drawing-room of Europe, with its speceal, monumental whitenes, despite the dusk that menacingly whispers ‘the Horo the Horror, Matlow’s nara ‘ive keeps filth with the gendered conventions ofa civil course where womea are blinded bectse they see too teh reality, and aotels end because they cannot beat too much fe ‘only. Marlow ep the conversition going, suppresses the horror, gives history thee ~ the wit le — and wats forthe heavens to fll But, ase say, the Reaves do not ll foe such wife, Te global link berween colony and metropolis so central to the ideology of imperialism, is articulate in Kurt's elemate ‘words ~ ‘the Horror, the Horror!” The unreadabiity of thee CConsadian runes has tracted raych interpretive attention, pre tsely becuse ther depths contain ao truth that snot perfectly ‘watble on the ‘outside, enveloping the tale which brought iteut ‘only asa glow brings out + haze” Matlow does not merely repress dhe ‘cuth’~ however mulwocal and multivalent it may ‘be ~ as much as he enacts 3 pore of translation that (bee lhe boundary between the colony and the memopolis Ia taking {he mame of a woman ~ the Intended = to mask the deemonie “eing’ of colonialism, Mazlow tars the brooding geography of politcal disaser ~ the heart of darkness ~ into 2 melanchobc ‘memorial to roman love and hitorie memory. Berween the silent muth of Africa and the silent le to the metopolian ‘woman, Marlow recurs to his inisaing insight; the expeneoce ‘of colonialism isthe problem of living in the. "midst of the ‘incomprehensible’? ‘iis this incompreheasbiity ia the midst of the locations of

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