Homi K. Bhabha

(Indian-American postcolonial theorist, 1949–). Together with Edward Said and Gayatri Spivak, Bhabha is a foremost proponent of post-colonial theory. His considerable reputation primarily stems from just two influential books: the edited volume Nation and Narration (1990), and the collection of essays The Location of Culture (1994 & 2004). Bhabha acknowledges Edward Said as a major influence, while also critically referencing Derrida, Foucault, Fanon and the psychoanalytic theory of Lacan in his work, which explores the way the textual discourse of colonialism produces and reproduces its own "other". Bhabha's later work positions him as one of the principal theorists of "hybridity", the term used to describe the emergence of new migrant and minority discourses in the multicultural spaces of the modern and postmodern eras.