Journal of Young Intellectuals

Abstract

This article is by Indian - British born scientist and critical theorist Homi K. Bhabha’s first book titled “Nation & Narration” will be discussed and interpreted. The writer is at Harvard University. He is a professor of comparative literature at the Anne F. Rothenberg Institute for the Humanities. He is also one of the most important figures of postcolonial studies of our time. In this field, he has developed a number of new words and basic concepts such as hybridity, mimicry, difference and ambivalence. Such terms, according to Bhabha’s theory, describe the ways in which colonized people resist the power of the colonizer. The philosopher received the Padma Bhushan award in the field of literature and education from the government of India in 2012. Born in Bombay, India to a Parisian family, Bhabha received a bachelor’s degree and an M.A. from Elphinstone College, University of Mumbai. Phil. and D. Phil graduated with a master’s degree. He has worked in the field of English Literature at the University of Oxford for many years and has trained students. Bhabha started working at Princeton University after teaching in the English Department of the University of Sussex for more than ten years. He has most recently served at Harvard University. In the field of cultural studies, Homi Bhabha makes critical use of Althusser’s Marxian interpretation and Gramsci’s concept of “cultural hegemony” related to the madun category for socially marginalized and excluded groups. His theory of the colonial experience is also based on Lacanian-oriented psychoanalysis and the methods of language and discourse analysis of Foucault and Derrida. The concept of deconstruction developed by Derrida is of central importance for almost all postcolonial theorists. Revolutionary works in Frantz Fanon’s theory of racism, such as “Black Skin White Masks: The Psychology of the Oppressed and Alienation” and “The Damned of the Earth”, have a central/ lasting impact on Bhabha’s thoughts. More recently, Bhabha has specifically invented the concepts of “third place” or “Decoupage”. He sees it as an unrecognized place of thought - or a place that is not a place - between the temporary (temporary) place of the subjective house and the place of the historical house. Dec. However, this idea is not correct to say spacelessness. In the preface to Bhabha Nation and Narrative, he writes: “Nations, just like narratives, lose their origin in the myths of time and meet their horizons fully only in the mind’s eye.” Starting from this seemingly impossible metaphorical beginning, the book confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is experienced and the deep ambiguity of language as it is written.