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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.
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".
Postcolonialism (also post-colonial theory) ... (1994), theoretician Homi K. Bhabha argues that viewing the human world as composed of separate and unequal cultures, ...
The postcolonial critic Homi K. Bhabha emphasized the importance of social power relations in defining subaltern social groups as oppressed, racial minorities whose social presence was crucial to the self-definition of the majority group; as such, subaltern social groups, nonetheless, also are in a position to subvert the authority of the ...
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."
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]
Others like Aijaz Ahmad, Arif Dirlik, and Benita Parry blame Homi Bhabha for recycling obscure psychoanalytic and postmodern theories of culture and identity. Ahmad criticizes Bhabha for establishing a postcolonial theory which overlooks the material colonial context and post-independence realities of the former colonies.
Homi K. Bhabha: Bhabha is a postcolonial theorist, currently teaching at Harvard University, where he is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language. Bhabha brings together the insights of deconstruction and psychoanalysis in his investigations of social subordination.