%0 Journal Article %T Anne Castaing, Lise Guilhamon & Laetitia Zecchini (eds.), La modernit¨¦ litt¨¦raire indienne : Perspectives postcoloniales %A Catherine Servan-Schreiber %J South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal %D 2011 %I Centre d¡¯Etudes de l¡¯Inde et de l¡¯Asie du Sud %X 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... %U http://samaj.revues.org/3132