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Bhabha uses the term "menace of mimicry" to describe the way mimicry _________.

In 'Of Mimicry and Man', Homi K. Bhabha explains that the 'menace of mimicry' lies in its 'double vision which in disclosing the ambivalence of colonial discourse also…

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Bhabha uses the term "menace of mimicry" to describe the way mimicry _________.

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In 'Of Mimicry and Man', Homi K. Bhabha explains that the 'menace of mimicry' lies in its 'double vision which in disclosing the ambivalence of colonial discourse also disrupts its authority'—thereby challenging the fixity and narcissistic wholeness of colonial power and knowledge.

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