 | David Richards - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 366 pages
...describes as 'colonization-thingification' behind which there stands the essence of the presence africaine. The menace of mimicry is its double vision which in...ambivalence of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority.11 The image of the mask is, in his terms, a sign of 'no presence'. Yet Bhabha seems to reproduce... | |
 | Rosemary Marangoly George - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 282 pages
...mimesis, in which to be Anglicized, is emphatically not to be English."39 Bhabha goes on to elaborate: "[t]he menace of mimicry is its double vision which...of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority" (p. 129). Other citations from Conrad's own writing put a decisive brake on our desire to read some... | |
 | Marvin Carlson - Art - 1996 - 260 pages
...against the process of domination by introducing the destabilizing carnival of mimicry, and the menace of its "double vision, which in disclosing the ambivalence of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority."64 Schneider cites Spiderwoman's restaging of "Snake Oil Sideshows" (Winnetou's Snake Oil... | |
 | Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler - History - 1997 - 488 pages
...as "colonization-thingification" '3 behind which there stands the essence of the presence Africaine. The menace of mimicry is its double vision, which...of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority. And it is a double vision that is a result of what I've described as the partial representation/recognition... | |
 | Rebecca Schneider - Arts, Modern - 1997 - 508 pages
...the menace of mimicry is in fact the potential return or ricochet of that gaze. As Bhabha puts it: "The menace of mimicry is its double vision which...of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority." Thus, "the reforming, civilizing mission is threatened by the displacing gaze of its disciplinary double"... | |
 | Robert K. Martin, George Piggford - Education - 1997 - 328 pages
...that masks a threatening racial difference only to reveal the gaps in colonial power and knowledge, a "double vision which in disclosing the ambivalence...of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority" (Bhabha 86). But although the punkah wallah precipitates a resistance to colonial authority by disrupting... | |
 | Sandra Kumamoto Stanley - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 364 pages
...colonial ethnographic practice, rearticulating the whole and threatening the stability of white identity. "The menace of mimicry is its double vision which...of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority" (Bhabha 129). Bhabha continues, "The ambivalence of colonial authority repeatedly turns from mimicry... | |
 | Joan Dayan, Colin Dayan - History - 1998 - 372 pages
...emptying out of "presence" or "identity," leaving only a husk. What Bhabha calls mimicry's "menace" is its "double vision which in disclosing the ambivalence...of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority." Somewhere between mimicry and mockery lies the possibility that the "civilizing mission" itself can... | |
 | Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 289 pages
...menace of mimicry does not he in its concealment of some real identity behind its mask, but comes from its 'double vision which in disclosing the ambivalence...of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority' (88). The 'menace' of post-colonial writing, then, does not necessarily emerge from some automatic... | |
 | Marina Pérez de Mendiola - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 184 pages
...recognizable other, as a subject of a difference that is almost the same, but not quite. . . . [Yet] the menace of mimicry is its double vision which in disclosing the ambivalence [of heterosexual discourse, in the case of our study] also disrupts its authority" (126-29; emphasis in... | |
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The menace of mimicry is its double vision which in disclosing the ambivalence of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority. 
