霍米·巴巴后殖民主義理論中的第三空間是一種閾限空間,是具有臨界性和閾限性特質的、包容張力和外延的新的思維模式和理論范式。這種閾限空間是力圖擺脫二元對立并尋求確立新的身份構建與話語權力的臨界的他者空間,這一他者是囿于本民族內的"他者",亦是他民族內的"他者",被雙方雙向視為"異類",從而形成了獨特的介于民族內與他民族之間的雙重他者抵制策略,這種非正面對抗式的模式和策略不僅削弱了殖民者的話語權威與殖民權力,也在一定程度上實現介于之間的文學話語發聲景觀。矛盾性、混雜性,模擬和文化翻譯是閾限空間主要的解構與闡釋策略,其理論指向為文學理論中的文化斷裂彌合和他者身份話語建構,前景為多元文化視閾交融中的閾限空間理論。

The Third Space in Homi Bhabha’s postcolonial theory is a space that features criticality and liminality. This liminal space tolerates contradiction and expansion and produces new thinking patterns. It is the space of the other, which seeks to abandon the division between opposites and searches for new discursive power and identity in between. As a non-confrontational resistance strategy, it not only weakens the colonist’s power and authority but also forms a particular in-between style. Ambivalence, hybridity, mimicry and cultural translation characterize the liminal space, theoretically leading to the healing of cultural rift and possibility of identity construction.