Of Mimicry and Man1
Of Mimicry and Man1
Of Mimicry and Man1
Ambivalence of Colonial
Discourse
Francesca Ferrante
Literatura Anglesa i Imperi
2009-2010
Bhabhas biography
He was born in 1949 in a Parsi family in Mumbay
(India).
The Parsis, a minority with a worldwide population
of approximately 160,000, are Zoroastrians who
migrated from Persia to India in the eighth century
to avoid persecution.
A principal characteristic of Parsi identity is its
cultural/linguistic hybridity, which accompanies an
economic mobility and international experience.
What is Postcolonialism?
A reaction to Colonialism?
Orientalism (1978)
Questions
Lacan reminds us, mimicry is like camouflage, not a
harmonization of repression of difference, but a form of
resemblance, that differs from or defends presence by
displaying it in part, metonymically.
Bhabha, Of mimicry and Man
Bibliography
The Location of Culture. NY: Routledge, 1994
Webography
The Literary Encyclopedia
http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5184
Mimicry, Ambivalence and Hybridity
http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/1WEBPAGE.HTML
Philosophy and Literature 19.1 (1995) 196-197
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_and_literature/v019/19
.1br_bhabha.html
The Obscure
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