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ecoming designated by itself, encapsulated in a succession of historical
moments that represent an eternity produced by self-generation.” (Bhabha, The
Location of Culture 145-7).
4 Lo performativo, de acuerdo a Homi K. Bhabha, se delimita del siguiente modo:
“In the place of the polarity of a prefigurative self-generating nation ‘in-itself’ and
extrinsic to other nations, the performative introduces a temporality of the ‘inbetween’.
The boundary marks the nation’s selfhood interrupts the selfgenerating
time of national production and disrupts the signification of the
people as homogeneous …We are confronted with the nation split itself,
articulating the heterogeneity of its population. The barred nation It/ Self,
alienated from its eternal self-generation, becomes a space that is internally
marked by the discourses of minorities, the heterogeneous histories of
contending peoples, antagonistic authorities and the tense locations of cultural
difference.” (Bhabha, The Location of Culture 148)
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Willliams define lo residual de la siguiente manera: “By ‘residual’ I mean
something different from the ‘archaic’ […] I would call the ‘archaic’ that which is
wholly recognized as an element of the past […] The ‘residual’ by definition, has
been effectively formed in the past, but is still active in the cultural process, not
only and often not at all as an element of the past, but as an effective element
of the present” (122).
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