Homi Bhabha
On Mimicry and Coloniality
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The notion arises that ‘coloniality’ as a concept can only be adequately represented when certain constraints or prohibitions are observed. The effectiveness of colonial appropriation is gauged by the increasing number of representations of non-conformity. However, these very representations become the catalyst for its strategic downfall. Thus, mimicry is both a resemblance and a danger.
Homi K. Bhabha (born 1949) is a distinguished American postcolonial theorist of Indian descent.