Intellectuals, Diaspora and Culture: for a antimodern and postcolonial critique

Abstract

In this article, I bring Edward Said and his approach about the “in-betweenness” intellectual in order to discuss the postcolonial critique formulated by Stuart Hall e Homi Bhabha through the categories of hybridity and cultural difference. This critical alert to the fact that the “local of culture” is necessarily the uncertainty and indecision where the difference is expressed continuously. Therefore, the diaspora rather than reaffirming the multiculturalism or the monolithic universalism proposes a reflection on the ‘various subjects of differentiation’ that show the fragmentation of modernity.