Homi K. Bhabha
Homi K. Bhabha | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1 November 1949 |
| Spouse | Jacqueline Bhabha |
| Children | 3 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Mumbai (BA) Christ Church, Oxford (MA, M.Phil., D.Phil.) |
| Academic work | |
| School or tradition | Post-colonial theory Post-structuralism |
| Institutions | University of Sussex Princeton University Harvard University |
| Main interests | History of ideas, Literature |
| Notable ideas | Hybridity as a strategy of the suppressed against their suppressors, mimicry as a strategy of colonial subjection, Third Space, postcolonial "enunciative" present |
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. 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. He is married to attorney and Harvard lecturer Jacqueline Bhabha, and they have three children.