Location of Culture examines the displacement of the colonist's ligitimizing cultural authority; the margins of Western "civility" put under colonial stress; the complex cultural and political boundaries which exist between the spheres of gender, race, class, and sexuality; the place of language, psychic affect, and narrative discourse in the construction of social authority and cultural identity. Bhabha investigates a diverse range of texts in a bold attempt to specify the moment and the place of both colonial and post-colonial perspectives.
Taiwan, an island lying less than 100 miles (165 kilometers) off the east coast of the People’s Republic of China, is first noted in Western records has having been “discovered” by the Portuguese in 1590. They named the tobacco-leaf-shaped island “Ilha Formosa,” or “Beautiful Island.” The name that is more common today is Taiwan, thought to mean “terraced bay,” for the active terrace building that has taken place during the past three centuries on the western flanks of the mountains that slope westward toward the Taiwan Strait.
01 - Jeffty is Five by Harlan Elliso
02 - Twilight by John W. Campbell
03 - The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
04 - Bears Discover Fire by Terry Bisson
05 - The Crystal Spheres by David Brin
06 - That Only a Mother by Judith Merrill
07 - Allamagoosa by Eric Frank Russell
08 - Tangents by Greg Bear
09 - The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C. Clarke
10 - Huddling Place by Clifford D. Simak
11 - Why I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers by Lawrence Watt Evans
12 - Fermi and Frost by Frederick Pohl
