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In a novel titled for this action, Coca-Cola runs the Bella Bella Bottling Works in the fictional island country of Isabella. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this action that Homi K. Bhabha (“BAH-bah”) called a “metonym of presence” that menaces by reversing the colonial gaze. This action precedes “men” in the title of a V. S. Naipaul (“NYE-paul”) novel about Ralph Singh (“sing”).
ANSWER: mimicry [or word forms of mimicking; accept The Mimic Men; prompt on doubling, imitation, copying, or word forms or equivalents; reject “mimesis”]
[10e] In The Mimic Men, Ralph copies the ear-stroking mannerism of a landlord named for this Shakespeare villain. This man claims to mimic the “villainy you teach me” in a speech that asks “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”
ANSWER: Shylock (He appears in The Merchant of Venice.)
[10h] A section of this book analyzes “inauthenticity” in The Mimic Men. Bhabha’s analysis of Mr. Biswas is cited in this pioneering work of postcolonial literary criticism by Ashcroft, Griffiths, and Tiffin.
ANSWER: The Empire Writes Back [or The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures]
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