...globalization of culture. 5. Homi Bhabha writes, "Mimicry is thus the sign of a double articulation; a complex strategy of reform, regulation, and discipline,...and poses an immanent threat to both 'normalized' knowledge and disciplinary powers" (1994, 86). 6. There is quite a body of work on magical realism...

...difference that is itself a process of disavowal. Mimicry is, thus, the sign of a double articulation; a complex strategy of reform, regulation and discipline,...the dominant strategic function of colonial power, 1ntens1fies surve1llance, and poses an immanent threat to both "normalized" knowledges and disciplinary...

...refer to both processes working simultaneously: "Mimicry is thus the sign of a double articulation; a complex strategy of reform, regulation and discipline,...the sign of the inappropriate, however, a difference of recalcitrance which coheres the dominant strategic function of colonial power, intensifies surveillance,...

...produce its slippage, its excess, its difference ... Mimicry is thus the sign of a double articulation; a complex strategy of reform, regulation and discipline,...which 'appropriates' the Other as it visualizes power" (86). In this way, the French make use of the Turks, foreign objects of their desire and fear, to regulate...

...difference that is almost the same, but not quite.... Mimicry is, thus the sign of a double articulation; a complex strategy of reform, regulation and discipline,...both "normalized" knowledges and disciplinary powers. 2 Bhabha's examples, however, are all taken from British discourse about non-European colonies, with...

...difference that is itself a process of disavowal. Mimicry is thus the sign of a double articulation; a complex strategy of reform, regulation and discipline,...threat to both 'normalized' knowledges and disciplinary powers.20 Bhabha mentions 'the ambivalence of mimicry (almost the same, but not quite) ';21 Catatonia...

...but not quite" (1994: 86). However, mimicry is at the same time charged with the danger of menace: "Mimicry is also the sign of the inappropriate, however,...both 'normalized' knowledges and disciplinary powers" (1994: 86). This ensures that "the effect of mimicry on the authority of colonial discourse is profound...

...that which is imitated. In other words, it plays with the power relation of colonizer and colonized: "[Mimicry] is a complex strategy of reform, regulation...both 'normalized' knowledges and disciplinary powers" (1994, 86). However, with Wongar and the others, mimicry reverses, taking up the old motif of "going...

...ambivalence" (86) and concludes that "mimicry ... is the sign of a double articulation; a complex of strategy of reform regulation and discipline, which 'appropriates' the other as it visualizes power" (86). Although Bhabha's theorization is based on English imperialism, it can also be appropriated to...

...difference that is itself a process of disavowal. Mimicry is, thus, the sign of a double articulation; a complex strategy of reform, regulation, and discipline,...the sign of the inappropriate, however, a difference of racalcitrance which coheres the dominant strategic function of colonial power, intensifies surveillance,...