Postkolonialismus – nur Arbeit am Text? Homi K. Bhabhas theoretisches Engagement

The holistic approach advocated by cultural studies holds out the promise of genuine interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. But to what extent can this promise be redeemed? Are the representatives of different disciplines really talking about the same things when they use each other's vocabulary and questions? What conclusions can the postcolonial theoretician and literary scholar Homi K. Bhabha draw from his engagement with documents and other texts produced in a variety of colonial contexts? The rhetorical figures and gestures in Bhabha's argumentation are central to an understanding of his project. The applicability of Bhabha's ‘strong’ postcolonial concept of reading to an entirely different set of historical and literary documents is tested by way of analyzing a story by Richard Weiner.