# Homi K. Bhabha [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_K._Bhabha) (1949– ) ## Description Indian-American postcolonial theorist known for the concepts of hybridity, mimicry, and the "third space" of cultural enunciation, developed most fully in *The Location of Culture* (1994); a leading figure, alongside Edward Said and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, of postcolonial theory's establishment as a field. ## Key Tags #theorist #critical-theory #decolonial ## Essential Works - [The Location of Culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homi_K._Bhabha) (1994) - his central theoretical work, developing hybridity, mimicry, and the third space of enunciation ## Details Trained at Oxford before teaching at Sussex, Chicago, and Harvard. His concept of "hybridity" argues that colonial identity is never a pure imposition of the colonizer's culture but an unstable, ambivalent mixture produced in the encounter itself, while "mimicry" describes the colonized subject's imperfect, destabilizing imitation of the colonizer — both developed most fully in *The Location of Culture* (1994), one of postcolonial theory's foundational texts alongside the work of Edward Said and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. ### Concepts and Theories - [[Third Cinema and Socio-political Cinema]] - his theories of hybridity and cultural difference intersect with third cinema's anti-colonial film theory ### Creative and Technical Practices %% none yet %% ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements - Harvard University - Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography Bhabha, Homi K. *The Location of Culture*. Routledge, 1994. ### Secondary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %%