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Subaltern Man
Hans V Mathews
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Complete Story: Subaltern Man: 
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Homi K. Bhabha
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After being a professor of English literature in the earlier part of his career Homi K Bhabha is an influential post-colonial theorist, author of terms like ‘hybridization’ which are current in post-colonial studies. Bhabha has often been criticized for using indecipherable jargon and dense prose. In 1998 the journal Philosophy and Literature awarded Bhabha second prize in its "Bad Writing Competition," which "celebrates bad writing from the most stylistically lamentable passages found in scholarly books and articles." Bhabha was awarded the prize for a sentence in his The Location of Culture (Routledge, 1994), which reads:
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"If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification, pseudo-scientific theories, superstition, spurious authorities, and classifications can be seen as the desperate effort to “normalize” formally the disturbance of a discourse of splitting that violates the rational, enlightened claims of its enunciatory modality."
Bhabha is now the Director of the Humanities Center and the Senior Advisor on the Humanities to the President and Provost at Harvard University, but this appointment was preceded by his lateral movement into the new terrain. The Humanities Center which he heads was funded by the Mahindras and perhaps marks the admission of the Anglophone Indian elite into the ‘world order’. This essay ‘Subaltern Man’ was published when Homi K Bhabha had begun to pronounce on democracy, and is particularly relevant today because of the political implications of the Indian elite being co-opted into the emerging ‘world order’.
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Hans V Mathews ia an editor of Phalanx |
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