On the occasion of the launching of the French translation of Homi Bhabha’s essay, The Location of Culture (1994) (Les lieux de la culture), the journalist Jean Birnbaum sharply criticized postcolonial studies in France for their late and ‘muddled’ start and the more narrow approach compared to the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ school (Le Monde, 23 March 2007). Birnbaum’s criticism appears doubly unfounded: not only he fails to recognize the originality of French studies in this field of scholarship, he comp..
