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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 . 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 ...
It is attributed to Homi K. Bhabha. Third Space Theory explains the uniqueness of each person, actor or context as a "hybrid". [1] [non-primary source needed] See Edward W. Soja for a conceptualization of the term within the social sciences and from a critical urban theory perspective.
In literary studies, critics such as Homi Bhabha and Rey Chow have theorized that cultural stereotypes prevail because they work through repetition and ambivalence, easily shifting between contradictory meanings.
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 (born 1949): cultural-studies theorist; Professor, Harvard University; Jamshed Bharucha (born 1956): President, Cooper Union.Formerly, Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Dartmouth College (first Indian American to serve as the dean of a school at an Ivy League institution)
However, like Bhabha's concept of mimicry, hybridity is a doubling, dissembling image of being in at least two places at once. This turn in the effect of hybridity makes the presence of colonist authority no longer immediately visible. Bhabha includes interpretations of hybridity in postcolonial discourse.
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 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.