Homi K. Bhabha is one of the most significant literary theorists of our time and, alongside Edward Said, Gayatri Ch. Spivak, and Stuart Hall, one of the key representatives of Postcolonial Studies. The scholar, born in India, developed a number of fundamental concepts for this discipline. Neologisms he created, such as hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence, aim to describe the ways in which colonized peoples were (and are) able to resist the violence and power of the colonizers. This text is based on his lecture "On Cultural Hybridity - Tradition and Translation," delivered in the crowded ceremonial hall of the University of Vienna.