Homi BhabhaThinkers

Agency is as much a matter of freedom of choice as it is the action that resignifies dominant modes of signs and symbols in order to gain subaltern freedoms.

Ambivalence is, in postcolonial studies, culture consists of a duality that presents a split in the identity of the colonized other, allowing for beings who are a hybrid of their own cultural identity and that of their colonizer.

Colonialism is an acute experience of literal and cultural displacement.

Cultural pluralism is the peaceful coexistence of different interests, convictions, and life-styles, built upon the presumption that the people is still fundamentally understood within a national frame.

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Rumor is fueled by an almost uncontrollable impulse to pass it on to another person.

Rumor seems to circulate on its own because it is fueled by its indeterminacy, which constitutes its importance in social discourse and accounts for its communal adhesiveness.

Solidarity is something other than the coincidence and coordination of individual wills.

Subaltern agency is a form of negotiation which attempts to interrogate and rearticulate the 'interest' of society that marginalizes its interests.

The Unhomely appears through 'holes' in the fabric of reality, things that remained unsaid, questions that remained unanswered, a place 'where the relation of 'object' to identity is always split and doubled' at the edge of the knowable.

The Unhomely is the disorienting realization that the line between the home and the world (i.e. Private and public) is becoming blurred or erased. The distinction between having and lacking a home or private place in the world is disappearing.