...opaquely. According to him, "colonial mimicry is the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as a subject of a difference that is almost the same, but not quite ... a desire that, through the repetition of partial presence . . . articulates those disturbances...

...mimicry is the name given by Homi K. Bhabha to "the desire for a reformed, recognisable Other, as a subject of a difference that is almost the same but not quite"?' Ultimately, Bridgetower is precisely one of these "authorised versions of otherness", and as such his...

...imperialist discourse — 'an ironic compromise', 'the desire for a reformed, recognisable Other, as a subject of a difference that is almost the same, but not quite' — thus evolves into semiotic discourse, which stands for a further stage in the process of discursive...

...subaltern group that embodies colonial authority's 'desire for a reformed and recognizable Other ... [the] subject of a difference that is almost the same, but not quite. '2. Time and again, Ontario historians told their audiences that a great deal of credit for the integrity...

...Lacan, Homi Bhabha describes colonial mimicry as the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as a subject of a difference that is almost the same, but not quite. Which is to say, that the discourse of mimicry is constructed around ambivalence; in order to be effective,...

...Bhabha's notion of mimicry. He writes that "mimicry is the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as a subject of a difference that is almost the same, but not quite." ns In other words, it requires similarity and difference at the same time, in which the colonized is...

...to failure. Bhabha writes, "Colonial mimicry is the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as a subject of a difference that is almost the same, but not quite. Which is to say, that the discourse of mimicry is constructed around an ambivalence; in order to be...

...postcolonial theorization poses colonial mimicry as "the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as a subject of a difference that is almost the same, but not quite" (Bhabha 1994, 86). Thus, while mimicry applies to the colonized who repeats the image of the colonizer...

...revealingly on what he calls colonial mimicry, "the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as a subject of a difference that is almost the same, but not quite." Almost white, but not quite. Almost civilized, almost democratic, almost . . . but not quite. Here,...

...terms like colonial "mimicry," Bhabha addresses "the desire for a reformed, recognizable Other, as a subject of a difference that is almost the same, but not quite" (Bhabha 86). In succinct terms, Bhabha presents the colonized as mimicking, or "acting up," his or...