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" Weber's formulation of the marginalizing vision of castration/' then colonial mimicry is the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as a subject of a difference that is almost the same, but not quite. Which is to say. that the discourse of mimicry... "
Cannibal Fictions: American Explorations of Colonialism, Race, Gender, and ... - Página 60
por Jeff Berglund - 2006 - 256 páginas
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Subject People and Colonial Discourses: Economic Transformation and Social ...

Kelvin A. Santiago-Valles - 1994 - 322 páginas
...namely, the persistence of the colonizer's "... desire for a reformed recognizable Other, as a subject of difference that is almost the same but not quite....continually produce its slippage, its excess, its difference."22 The racialization of intrapopular discrepancies also surfaced within this setting of...
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Rhetorics of Self-Making

Debbora Battaglia - 1995 - 166 páginas
...nationally in tandem but at cross-purposes, led on by the modest grass-roots image of the yam. IN CONCLUSION The discourse of mimicry is constructed around an...produce its slippage, its excess, its difference. —HOMI BHABHA I have argued that nostalgia does not invariably entail false contact that subverts...
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The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

Markman Ellis - 2004 - 284 páginas
...hardly that.'85 There is, to use Bhabha's phrase, an 'ambivalence' produced by the logic of mimicry, 'in order to be effective, mimicry must continually...produce its slippage, its excess, its difference'. Sancho is both familiar and uncanny: an imitation of Sterne that subverts the identity of what it represents....
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Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World

Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler - 1997 - 488 páginas
...compromise. If I may adapt Samuel Weber's formulation of the marginalizing vision of castration,3 then colonial mimicry is the desire for a reformed, recognizable...produce its slippage, its excess, its difference. The authority of that mode of colonial discourse that I have called mimicry is therefore stricken by...
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Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970

Sumathi Ramaswamy - 2023 - 348 páginas
...populations. Yet, as Homi Bhabha observes, colonial mimicry is marked by a profound ambivalence, for "in order to be effective, mimicry must continually...its slippage, its excess, its difference." Mimicry in the colony, "on the margins of metropolitan desire," is always "a subject of difference that is...
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Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Parama Roy - 2023 - 252 páginas
...defamiliarization." Thus "colonial mimicry is the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as a subject of difference that is almost the same, but not quite....continually produce its slippage, its excess, its difference."34 Yet this necessary difference — which cannot be uncoupled from repetition — is itself...
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The Dictator Next Door: The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in ...

Eric Roorda - 1998 - 372 páginas
..."difference that is almost the same, but not quite" that separates the mimic from the model, Bhabha asserts that "the discourse of mimicry is constructed around...produce its slippage, its excess, its difference." This ambivalence was generated by the authoritarianism of Trujillo's regime (despite its facade of...
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Colonial Writing and the New World, 1583-1671: Allegories of Desire

Thomas Scanlan - 1999 - 268 páginas
...there is ambivalence. Homi Bhabha has called this phenomenon "colonial mimicry," which he defines as, the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as...produce its slippage, its excess, its difference. The authority ofthat mode of colonial discourse that I have called mimicry is therefore stricken by...
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Nationalism and Cultural Practice in the Postcolonial World

Neil Lazarus - 1999 - 316 páginas
...native traditions," but hybridization, or mimicry ("Signs," p. 173). Colonial "mimicry" is defined as "the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as...continually produce its slippage, its excess, its difference."103 In these terms, "hybridity" does not describe the identity of the "native" under colonial...
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Jewries at the Frontier: Accommodation, Identity, Conflict

Sander L. Gilman, Milton Shain - 1999 - 412 páginas
...Bhabha's work. In a now well-known article, "Of Mimicry and Man," Bhabha describes colonial mimicry as "the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as...continually produce its slippage, its excess, its difference."11 Bhabha's starting point is a discussion of British colonialism, particularly in India....
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