mimic man
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.49 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Post-colonial person trained up to be “almost the same, but not quite” as an individual of the pre-independence colonist, resulting in ambivalence or alienation
noun
A man exhibiting the attributes of mimic men
Example Sentences
- "The line of descent of the mimic man can be traced through the works of Kipling, Forster, Orwell, Naipaul, and to his emergence, most recently, in Benedict Anderson's excellent work on nationalism, as the anomalous Bipin Chandra Pal. He is the effect of a flawed colonial mimesis, in which to be Anglicized is emphatically not to be English."
- ""...I suggest by way of an intertextual reading with C. L. R. James’s nonfictional works, Naipaul inventively links the colonial story of a mimic man with the communal history of the mimic men,...""