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The Mimic Men is a novel by V. S. Naipaul, first published by Andre Deutsch in the UK in 1967.
In The Mimic Men we are treated to the first person account of the life of Ralph Singe, former government minister of the small island nation of Isabella, now living in exile.
V.S. Naipaul’s The Mimic Men was published in 1967, during a time of great social and political change in the world. The novel is set in the postcolonial Caribbean, a region that was still grappling with the legacy of colonialism and struggling to find its own identity.
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.
A profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world. Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence.
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- V. S. Naipaul
The Mimic Men describes a genealogy of the subjectifying practices that produce, to follow Homi Bhabha, mimicry as "authorized ver sions of otherness,"8 or as a certain type of colonial identity.
Aug 14, 2001 · 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.” —The New York Review of Books.
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- V. S. Naipaul
