摘要：While I was working on my DPhil thesis on literary theories, of which Homi K. Bhabha was one of the theorists, I realised how very significant and relevant his views were in analysing a literary text. I found that his concepts such as mimicry and the uncanny, as related to the broader concept of anxiety, contained some seminal principles without which a large part of contemporary literature would remain unappreciated or little understood. When I read Lakshmi Raj Sharma’s The Tailor’s Needle (UK: Picnic Publishing Ltd, 2009) certain features of Bhabha’s theory fell into pattern because this text, apart from providing the various rasas, seemed to prove Bhabha so right. My interest in the novel, and its author, grew several times and I began to study it with greater interest. As I read the novel it dawned upon me that if I interviewed its author, certain riddling features related to magical realism, and postcolonial theory (particularly Bhabha’s version of it), would find some explanation.
