1. The Harvard professor and literary critic, is author of The Location of Culture (Routledge, 1994). In this article from NPQ Winter, 1997 Homi Bhabha argues that the location of culture today is not in some pure core inherited from tradition, but at the edges of contact between civilizations where new, “in-between,” or hybrid, identities are being forged. In our plural, postmodern times the edges increasingly define the core; the margins more and more constitute the center.