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The Mimic Men is a novel by V. S. Naipaul, first published by Andre Deutsch in the UK in 1967.
- V. S. Naipaul
- 1967
The Mimic Men is a work of fiction about a man who grew up on a Caribbean island called Isabella (not a real island). As an adult he moved to England for a while, came back to Isabella, trying to help reconstruct it after it stopped being an English colony and ultimately failing.
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A literary analysis of Naipaul's novel that explores the themes of colonial and post-colonial identity, self-fashioning, and mimicry. The article uses Greenblatt's and Bhabha's concepts to deconstruct the narratives of colonial subjection and resistance in the text.
The Mimic Men is a novel by British-Trinidadian author V.S. Naipaul, first published in 1967. Combining elements of both fiction and nonfiction and completed while Naipaul was writer-in-residence at Uganda’s Makerere University, it is considered one of Naipaul’s most serious and poetic novels.
V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men is a profound, moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man’s experience in the post-colonial world.
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23. Juni 2010 · The mimic men. by. Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-. Publication date. 1969. Topics. Postcolonialism, Politicians, Exiles. Publisher. London : Penguin.
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Enigma of Arrival comes a profound novel of cultural displacement, masterfully evoking a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world. “No one else … seems able to employ prose fiction so deeply as the very voice of exile.”
