 | Fredric V. Bogel - Fiction - 2001 - 280 pages
...history, quite simply mocks its power to be a model, that power which supposedly makes it imitable." Thus, "the menace of mimicry is its double vision which...of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority." As a result, the colonizer's "look of surveillance returns as the displacing gaze of the disciplined,... | |
 | John Thieme - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 210 pages
...that The effect of mimicry on the authority of colonial discourse is profound and disturbing. . . . The menace of mimicry is its double vision which in...of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority' (86, 88; italics in original). Reclaiming ghosts, claiming ghosts: Caribbean and Canadian responses... | |
 | D. Pal S. Ahluwalia - History - 2001 - 180 pages
...in human warfare' (ibid.: 85). It is in this way that the idea of menace and mimicry coexist, where the 'menace of mimicry is its double vision which...of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority' (ibid.: 88). Bhabha cites Macaulay's 1835 'Minute on Indian Education' as integral to the colonial... | |
 | Martin McQuillan - Philosophy - 2001 - 630 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...disclosing the ambivalence of colonial discourse also distupts its authority. And it is a double vision that is a result of what I've described as the partial... | |
 | Toyin Falola, Christian Jennings - Social Science - 466 pages
...Bhabha's "Of Mimicry and Man" advances the potential subversive power of being "not quite." He suggests, "The menace of mimicry is its double vision which...of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority" (88). But similar to Fanon's assertions. Bhabha's premise takes on new meaning when applied to a gendered... | |
 | Tim Cresswell, Deborah Dixon - Performing Arts - 2002 - 348 pages
...difference unfolds. The representation of John Johnson/Nanook hints that "hybridity is heresy" and that the " menace of mimicry is its double vision which...ambivalence of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority."88 Most importantly, the possibility of both cultural diversity and cultural difference... | |
 | Gerard Aching - Caribbean Area - 2002 - 230 pages
...subject" into a "partial presence" ("both 'incomplete' and 'virtual'") (86) and, second, the problem of a "double vision which in disclosing the ambivalence...of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority" (88); Bhabha also associates this double vision with "the partial representation/recognition of the... | |
 | William B. Worthen - Drama - 2003 - 282 pages
...metropolitan fantasies of that "other" globe. As Homi Bhabha's now-classic "Of Mimicry and Man" reminds us, the "menace of mimicry is its double vision which...of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority" (88), and so "alienates its own language of liberty and produces another knowledge of its norms" (86).... | |
 | Jonathan D. Culler - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 400 pages
...as "colonization-thingification"" behind which there stands the essence of the présence Africaine. The menace of mimicry is its double vision which in...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... | |
 | Ivone Margulies - Art - 2003 - 364 pages
...And it is this structure of mimicry that constitutes the "menace" of possession. Bhabha claims that "The menace of mimicry is its double vision which...ambivalence of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority."62 Possession constitutes a specific form of knowledge, a mythic memory formed by and 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. 
