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Colonial mimicry is the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other.
In between the Mimicry/Mockery the reforming mission is threatened by the displacing gaze of its disciplinary double.
A subject of difference that is almost the same, but not quite.
Constructed around an ambivalence. The sign of a double articulation:
The ambivalence of mimicry (almost the same but not quite) fixes the colonial subject as a "partial" presence.
Born 1949 in Mumbai, India
Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English
Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard
He is one of the most important figures in contemporary post-colonial studies
Coined neologisms such as hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence
Christian missionaries encouraging "partial reform"
Strategy of Reform, Regulation, and Discipline. "Appropriates" the Other.
Disobedience, intensifies surveillance, poses an immanent threat to disciplinary forces.
"Inappropriates" the Other.
In normalizing the colonial state, the dream of post-Enlightenment civility alienates its own language of liberty.
Edward Said's idea of the tension between
Causes doubt in the Colonizer's "naturalized" notions of racial/cultural superiority and of their power over their subjects.
Synchronic Panoptical Vision of Domination
Diachrony of History
"Slave"
Legitimate form of Ownership
Identity
Stasis
Difference
Change
Trope for an intolerable, illegitimate exercise of power.
Compromise
Mimicry
Colonizer's identity, or even "confidence in their own essence" is called into question, and therefore, the mimicry of the colonized "ruptures" the discourse of colonialism.