...undermined - in this case, without the representative of this authority being aware of it. Bhabha writes: "Mimicry emerges as the representation of a difference that is itself a process of disavowal" and that "the effect on the authority of colonial discourse is profound and disturbing" (Bhabha 1984a:...

...is an important example of a brand of dissidence that Homi Bhabha has defined as "colonial mimicry": "Mimicry emerges as the representation of a difference...process of disavowal. Mimicry is thus the sign of the double articulation; a complex strategy of reform, regulation, and discipline, which 'appropriates'...

...is an important example of a brand of dissidence that Homi Bhabha has defined as "colonial mimicry": "Mimicry emerges as the representation of a difference...process of disavowal. Mimicry is thus the sign of the double articulation; a complex strategy of reform, regulation, and discipline, which 'appropriates'...

...ofthat mode of colonial discourse that I have called mimicry is therefore stricken by an indeterminacy: mimicry emerges as the representation of a difference that is itself a process of disavowal.1" Even when Léry is encouraging his readers to see the Tupinamba as allies in the struggle...

...authority and its excesses — by identifying deception with race and class. They secure power through "the representation of a difference that is itself a process of disavowal" (Bhabha 1994:86). Identifying blackness with secrecy, and secrecy as a so-called natural fact read...

...different. From the perspective of colonized peoples, in order to act as an oppositional strategy, mimicry must "continually produce its slippage, its...difference that is itself a process of disavowal." 126 The ambivalence of mimicry leads to an "incomplete" colonial subject— "almost the same, but not...

...being remade in the Other's image, the illusion of successful mimesis" (1992, 15). For Bhabha, then, "mimicry emerges as the representation of a difference that is itself a disavowal" (1994, 86). He argues that this fundamental ambivalence lies at the heart of colonial discourse...

...mimicry to describe the relationship between the postcolonial subject and the nation-state, relating that "mimicry emerges as the representation of a difference that is itself a process of disavowal. . . . The effect of mimicry on the authority of colonial discourse is profound and disturbing. For...

...consequence, "appropriates" the Other while pointing at it as the locus of the "inappropriate" because it is "the representation of a difference that is itself a process of disavowal" (86). Thus mimicry, while constructing a fantasy of incorporation that is a collective experience of...

...the desire for a reformed, recognisable Other, as a subject of a difference that is almost the same. Which is to say that the discourse of mimicry is constructed...difference ... Mimicry emerges as the representation of difference that is itself a process of disavowal. Mimicry is thus the sign of a double articulation;...