Postcolonialism: interdisciplinary or interdiscursive?

(An)other Way of Being Human: ‘indigenous’ alternative(s) to postcolonial humanism

“…45 In much the same way Bhabha's argument that the 'European' and the 'indigenous' cannot be conceived as isonomic categories, given the coloniser's attempts to forge 'discriminatory identities', was met by constant 'disruptions' and 'disavowals' by the colonial subjects themselves. 46 Thus, in responding to Susan Okin's critique that 'minority rights' are harmful to multiculturalism since they perpetuate patriarchal practices in the name of 'tradition', Bhabha argues that there are no 'pure minorities' who do not embody liberal ideologies of rights inasmuch as there is no 'pure' dominant/ West (liberal) who is devoid of sexism and patriarchal values. 47 Bhabha writes: 'I do not wish to press the tired and overused charge of ''Eurocentrism'' against such an argument' for '[the]creation of new minorities reveals a liminal, intestinal public sphere that emerges in-between the state and the non-state, in-between individual rights and group needs .…”