Abstract
ABSTRACTThis article contends that The Mimic Men tactically repeats and then deconstructs the colonialist stereotype of the mimic men by embedding two layers of writing within the novel: Singh’s documentary writing and Naipaul’s literary narrative, whose interplay with each other is prone to invoke ethical resonance. In juxtaposing the double-layered writings, I suggest through an intertextual reading with C. L. R. James’s works, Naipaul links the colonial story of a mimic man with the communal history of the mimic men, which mobilizes readers to recognize the ethico-aesthetic difficulty of representing the colonial subject.
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