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The Third Space is a postcolonial sociolinguistic theory of identity and community realized through language. It is attributed to Homi K. Bhabha. Third Space Theory explains the uniqueness of each person, actor or context as a "hybrid".
Homi Kharshedji Bhabha (/ ˈ b ɑː b ɑː /; born 1 November 1949) is an Indian scholar and critical theorist. He is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University . He is one of the most important figures in contemporary postcolonial studies , and has developed a number of the field's neologisms and key concepts ...
More recently, Amar Acheraiou in Questioning Hybridity, Postcolonialism and Globalization challenges Bhabha's theory of hybridity on theoretical as well as ideological and historical grounds. He criticizes Bhabha for examining hybridity from a narrow, "synchronic" perspective confined to the 19th century, instead of adopting a "diachronic" view ...
The fourth model is the comparative model which looks at features such as cultural hybridity, drawing upon the works of Homi K. Bhabha, and syncretistic (the blending of cultures and ideas) as the necessary components for all post-colonial literatures. [1]
The theory of hybridization was originally developed by Homi K. Bhabha in an effort to explain the effects of interacting cultures. [43] Bhabha's theory contends that, through the process of what he refers to as cultural translation, the interactions between two distinct cultures result in the formation of a hybrid identity.
Homi K. Bhabha and hybridity [ edit ] In The Location of Culture (1994), theoretician Homi K. Bhabha argues that viewing the human world as composed of separate and unequal cultures, rather than as an integral human world, perpetuates the belief in the existence of imaginary peoples and places—" Christendom " and the " Islamic World ...
Homi K. Bhabha is an Indian scholar and critical theorist. In a 1995 Artforum interview, Bhabha noted that Said was the writer who most influenced his work. [38] But despite his praise, Bhabha considered Said's interpretation of Orientalism overly unifying; thus, he amended the concept to be "ruptured and hybrid."
Soja here closely resembles Homi Bhabha's Third Space Theory, in which "all forms of culture are continually in a process of hybridity," that "displaces the histories that constitute it, and sets up new structures of authority, new political initiatives… The process of cultural hybridity gives rise to something different, something new and ...