If ur giving this exam, then you should be prepared to work ur ass off, just kidding. In this paper i invoke homi bhabhas notions of hybridity and the third space and offer some. Third space is, thus, both for soja 1996 and bhabha 2000, 2003, a marginal space, for contact or translation between cultures or identities. Byrne concludes with reflections on the continuing importance of bhabhas work.
One of the most widely employed and most disputed terms in postcolonial theory, hybridity commonly refers to the creation of new transcultural forms within the contact zone produced by colonization. Bhabha, homi and jonathan rutherford 1990 the third space. Bhabha in his the location of culture 1994, is taken up by karin ikas and gerhard wagner in their edited volume communicating in the third space 2009 to raise a critical debate on third space in this age of globalization where. Bhabha and spivak constitute the holy trinity of colonial discourse analysis, and have to be acknowledged as central to the field.
He believes we need to look at humanities as a culture of knowledge. The elusive reformatory zeal among the colonials referred as mimic men by bhabha and v. Although bhabha is critical of the oversimplification of the binaries of east and west and colonizer and colonized in saids early work as both poles are hybrid and implicated in each other, their locus of enunciation and intellectual positions can be considered similar as both examine processes that divide, categorize, and dominate. International students negotiating the transition from pathway program to postgraduate coursework degree. This volume explores his writings and their influence on postcolonial theory, introducing in clear and accessible language the key concepts of his work, such as ambivalence, mimicry, hybridity and translation. Revisiting the third space in language and intercultural. The third space interview with homi bhabha homi bhabha lectures in english and literary theory at sussex university. Pdf a study of the third space, hybridity, and colonial mimicry in. Bhabha the commitment to theory i in august 1986, the edinburgh international film festival staged a threeday conference on third cinema organized by jim pines, june givanni and paul willemen. With the major political and economic changes experienced in both the euro. Once you have got that idea, you go back and read homi bhabha.
The theoretical recognition of the splitspace of enunciation may open the way to conceptualising an international culture, based not on the exoticism of multiculturalism or the diversity of cultures, but on the inscription and articulation of cultures hybridity. Trevor grimshaw and janina iwaniec report on an interview study of the. Interview with jonathan rutherford, 1990 pdf diaspora and home. Pdf a study of the third space, hybridity, and colonial. Although his theories are difficult to be grasped, people could be really inspired from them in the process of understanding. The social encounter is a particular kind of meeting from which a wide range of different responses may emerge e. The third space an interview with homi bhabha free download as pdf file.
Jun 08, 2008 the title the third space is taken from the work of the influential cultural and postcolonial theorist homi bhabha. He was born into a small parsi community from mumbai, india. Rothenberg professor of the humanities at harvard university. Bhabha s hybridity and the third space in postcolonial discourse. Although bhabha is critical of the oversimplification of the binaries of east and west and colonizer and colonized in saids early work as both poles are hybrid and implicated in each other, their locus of enunciation and intellectual positions can be considered similar as both examine processes that divide, categorize, and dominate the world. Soja for a conceptualization of the term within the social sciences and from a critical urban theory perspective. Bhabha is one of todays most influential cultural theorists and a key thinker of contemporary postcolonial studies. Bhabha, a leading figure in contemporary cultural discourse, whose theory of. The author, homi bhabha, was unknown to me, end the topic the arrival of the. Bhabha, the location of culture abbreviated as lc hereafter london and new york. Cultural interaction is most visibly reflected in migrant literature created in a socalled third space. This interview originally appeared in the book diasporic constructions of home and belonging known for the introduction of theoretical key concepts such as hybridity, mimicry, difference, ambivalence and the third space, homi k.
It is the inbetween space that carries the burden of the meaning of culture, and by exploring this. Rothenberg professor of english and american literature and language, and the director of the humanities center, at harvard university. The meaning of bhabhas third space concept is perhaps subject to. The third space, interview with homi bhabha johnathon rutherford reading response and essay structure plan blog task 3 posted on september 28, 2017 by llivvs in john rutherfords interview with homi bhabha, an english and literary theories lecturer at sussex university, he discusses the topics of hybridity and identity.
Sullivan 1997 the primary project of these agendas has been the acculturation of maori. In my paper, which will be structured around the key work of homi bhabha, the book the location of culture, i will explore how homi bhabhas theories have shifted and influenced the discourses and debates around globalisation and migration. Homi bhabhas concept of hybridity by nasrullah mambrol on april 8, 2016 12. Hybridity in the third space te matahauariki research institute. It is that third space, though unrepresentable in itself, which constitutes the discursive conditions of enunciation that ensure that the meaning and symbols of culture have no primordial unity or fixity. Third space theory explains the uniqueness of each person, actor or context as a hybrid. Homi bhabhas essay the location of culture and his book under the same title offer people new perspectives to understand the postcolonial literatures. Cultural identity and third space asu digital repository arizona.
Cultural diversity and cultural differences homi k. Apr 08, 2016 home postcolonialism homi bhabhas concept of hybridity. Third space theory has been attributed to homi bhabha 1994, a postcolonial and. As will be shown later in this paper, bhabha achieves this feat by developing a postcolonial theory that draws on and exceeds the farsighted and farreaching. Homi bhabha theorizes the third space of confusion and paradox, or liminality, within the context of postcolonialism. Interview with homi bhabha free download as pdf file. Harvard humanities centre director homi bhabha talks on the core focus of the centre of humanities at harvard. These postcolonial mimic men, bhabha asserts, are authorized versions of otherness, and.
Interview with homi bhabha, in jonathan rutherford ed. Bhabhas take on third space, hy bridity, and colonial mimicry. Homi bhabha and his the location of culture term paper. The production of meaning requires that these two places be mobilized in the passage through a third space, which represents both the general conditions of language and the specific implication of the utterance in a performative and institutional strategy of which it cannot in itself be conscious. He is one of the most important figures in contemporary postcolonial studies, and has developed a number of the fields neologisms and key concepts, such as hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence. This volume explores his writings and their influence on postcolonial theory, introducing in clear and accessible language the key concepts of his work, such as. The third space an interview with homi bhabha fundamentalism. Sep 07, 2019 third space geography the extraordinary voyages of henri lefebvre. Wjt mitchell 1995 in an interview with homi bhabha explains his reasons for paying. The concerns of the conference were publicized in these terms. In the past, cultural politics in aotearoanew zealand have followed an assimilationist, and then integrationist agenda rooted in historical colonial relations.
Pdf click to increase image size click to decrease. I shall now discuss some of these approaches, as adopted in. I know it is rumoured that this exam is difficult and getting through to the last level is super tough but tha. Bhabha is based on the existence of such space where cultural borders open up to each other, and creation of a new hybrid culture that combines their features and atones their differences. As will be shown later in this paper, bhabha achieves this feat by developing a postcolonial theory that. It is not a situation only restricted to confrontations. Setting a reading intention helps you organise your reading. Bhabhas third space theory, in which all forms of culture are continually in a process of hybridity, that displaces the histories that constitute it, and sets up new structures of authority, new political initiatives the process of cultural hybridity gives rise to something different, something new and. Homi bhabhas contribution and critics springerlink. Cultural difference, hybridity and the third space in the social. The third space an interview with homi bhabha scribd. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. The author, homi bhabha, was unknown to me, end the topic the arrival of the english book scripture, literature, technology at a scene of colonial reception suddenly made my whole previous sense of english literature seem insular and provincial, even as it seemed to speak precisely from the provincial and colonial margins of english. The third space, interview with homi bhabha johnathon.
The muchdiscussed yet stillenigmatic concept of third space, primarily propagated by homi k. He is one of the most important figures in contemporary postcolonial studies, and has coined a number of the fields neologisms and key concepts, such as hybridity, mimicry. Bhabhas take on third space, hybridity, and colonial mimicry. His writing on colonialism, race, identity and difference have been an important influence on debates in cultural politics. For communicating in the third space, editors ikas and w agner have. Bhabha 1996 bhabha posits hybridity as such a form of liminal or inbetween space, where the cutting edge of translation and negotiation bhabha 1996 occurs and which he terms the third space. Since the 1980s, the notion of biculturalism has increasingly found popularity despite. Interview with homi bhabha stanford presidential lectures.