Homi K. Bhabha

This article is about the critical theorist. For the physicist, see Homi J. Bhabha.

Homi K. Bhabha
Born (1949-11-01) 1 November 1949 (age 75)
Bombay, Province of Bombay, Dominion of India
(now Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)
SpouseJacqueline Bhabha
Children3
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Mumbai (MA)
Christ Church, Oxford (MA, M.Phil., D.Phil.)
Academic work
School or traditionPost-colonial theory
Post-structuralism
InstitutionsUniversity of Sussex
Princeton University
Harvard University
Main interestsHistory of ideas, Literature
Notable ideasHybridity as a strategy of the suppressed against their suppressors, mimicry as a strategy of colonial subjection, Third Space, postcolonial "enunciative" present[1]

Homi Kharshedji Bhabha (/ˈbɑːbɑː/; 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, such as hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence.[2] Such terms describe ways in which colonised people have resisted the power of the coloniser, according to Bhabha's theory. In 2012, he received the Padma Bhushan award in the field of literature and education from the Indian government.[3] He is married to attorney and Harvard lecturer Jacqueline Bhabha, and they have three children.[4]

  1. ^ Peter Hallward, Absolutely Postcolonial: Writing Between the Singular and the Specific, Manchester University Press, 2001, p. 25.
  2. ^ Huddart, David. "Homi K. Bhabha", Routledge Critical Thinkers, 2006
  3. ^ "Padma Awards". pib. 27 January 2013. Retrieved 27 January 2013.
  4. ^ Eakin, Emily (17 November 2001). "Harvard's Prize Catch, a Delphic Postcolonialist". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 10 March 2019.