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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.
Apr 8, 2016 · The term ‘hybridity’ has been most recently associated with the work of Homi K. Bhabha, whose analysis of colonizer/colonized relations stresses their interdependence and the mutual construction of their subjectivities (see mimicry and ambivalence).
Jan 11, 2018 · Homi K. Bhabha (b. 1949) is a literary and cultural critic, influential theorist of postcolonial culture, and engaged advocate for the humanities. While easily understood as a postcolonial theorist, the range of his interests means it is perhaps better to characterize his work in terms of vernacular or translational cosmopolitanism.
Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and chair of the Program in History and Literature at Harvard University. He is the author of The Location of Culture (Routledge, 1994) and editor of the essay collection Nation and Narration (Routledge, 1990).
Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English, the Director of the Humanities Center and the Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost at Harvard University.
Dec 7, 2017 · Known for the introduction of theoretical key concepts such as hybridity, mimicry, difference, ambivalence and the Third Space, Homi K. Bhabha is one of today’s most influential cultural theorists and a key thinker of contemporary postcolonial studies.
In "The Commitment to Theory," an essay collected in The Location of Culture (1994), Homi K. Bhabha foregrounds the unfortunate and perhaps false opposition of theory and politics that some critics have framed in order to question the elitism and Eurocentrism of prevailing postcolonial debates:
Homi Bhabha. Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities. Education: B.A., University of Bombay (1970) MPhil., M.A., D.Phil, Christ Church, Oxford (1990) Interests: Cosmopolitanism; human rights in the context of aesthetics and culture; the works of Joseph Conrad, Walter Benjamin, Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, V.S. Naipaul, J.M. Coetzee.
Jun 16, 2024 · Homi Bhabha. (b. 1949) Quick Reference. (1949–) An Indian-born, but American-based literary critic and theorist, Bhabha is one of the three most prominent postcolonial theorists of recent times, along with Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak.
Homi K. Bhabha. Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities. Research Fields: Bhabha is the author of numerous works exploring colonial and postcolonial theory, cultural change and power, and cosmopolitanism, among other themes. Education: BA 1970, University of Bombay; MPhil, MA, DPhil 1990, Christ Church, Oxford.
