This volume presents the complete main work of Homi K. Bhabha for the first time in a German translation. No thinker has articulated the issue of cultural positioning as succinctly as this "Anglicized postcolonial migrant who happens to be a literature scholar with a slight French influence" - as Bhabha characterizes himself. In a virtuosic, richly relational language, he demonstrates that in postcolonial times, the "essence" or "place" of culture can no longer be understood as unified or closed. The theorist of hybridity counters such notions with his concept of the "Third Space," which transcends common polarities such as Self - Other, Third World - First World. The texts gathered in the positioning of culture are among the most innovative and influential works in contemporary literary theory.