Concept Of Mimicry Research Articles

A Study of Tagore idea of Nationalism through the Perception of Homi Bhaba Concept of Mimicry

A Study of Tagore idea of Nationalism through the Perception of Homi Bhaba Concept of Mimicry

The Fervor for “Ski-Slope” Noses: An Exploration into the Surgical Reinforcement of Colonial Beauty

In this paper, we inspect cosmetic surgery advertising based in three cities regarded at the forefront of plastic surgery: Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery in Beverly Hills, JK Plastic Surgery Center in Seoul, and Estetik International in Istanbul. We engage with postcolonial theories such as Homi K Bhabha’s concept of mimicry and W.E.B Du Bois’s theory of double consciousness to examine the way in which traditional beauty standards are reinforced in these ads through the consistent usage of Caucasian models and the popularity of particular procedures despite the geographic distance and cultural divisions between locations. Moreover, we analyze the global exchange of distinct ethnic features, investigating its coexisting and evolving relationship with the mainstream beauty standard’s idealization of the European appearance. We challenge the conventional perception that Eurocentric ideals singularly occupy contemporary beauty standards, arguing the emergence of a more complex standard through the decomposition of homogeneous colonial beauty and the growing admiration for explicitly regional characteristics.

The impact of mimicry behavior on guilt

Guilt, on the one hand, can be unpleasant and exhausting. On the other hand, it can also motivate individuals to, for example, make amends and repair broken social relationships. To understand this dual nature of guilt, this research turns to the concept of mimicry. Mimicry is defined as the unconscious imitation of behaviors and is widely recognized as a 'social glue' that plays a crucial role in forming and maintaining social relationships. A key question is whether mimicry could serve as an appliance for the sake of guilt release. A series of six studies (N = 414) reveals the opposite pattern: participants who were mimicked (compared to non-mimicked) felt more guilty. This outcome suggests that while mimicry generally fosters social connections, its interplay with emotions like guilt can be complex.

Transculturalism in the Diasporic Writings of Bharati Mukherjee: A Note on The Tiger’s Daughter and Wife

This paper is an attempt to analyse the transcultural elements in the novels The Tiger’s Daughter and Wife written by Bharati Mukherjee, an Indian diasporic writer. Mukherjee’s writings reflect her own life as an immigrant, as she writes about the pain of adjusting to a completely alien land with its own culture and beliefs. Through her stories, the readers are able to catch a glimpse of the immigrant life, and their conflict between location and culture. An attempt is made to explore the concept of transculturalism in her novels by tracing the respective journeys of the protagonists, Tara and Dimple, with the help of Homi Bhabha’s concepts of mimicry, third space and hybridity.

Literary Negotiations in Contemporary Zainichi Korean Literature: Zainichi Korean Postcoloniality and its Entanglement with Global History

Abstract: Zainichi Korean literature, which addresses questions concerning the Zainichi Korean minority, can be considered as one among many postcolonial literatures. By examining works of Sagisawa Megumu, Kaneshiro Kazuki, and Kim Masumi as case studies, I position contemporary Zainichi Korean literature within the broader context of postcolonial global history. Sagisawa's novel Saihate no futari (Two persons at the margins, 1999) narrates the relationship between a Japanese woman, whose father is an American GI, and a Zainichi Korean man. After the man succumbs to leukemia, the woman discovers that his mother was a survivor of the atomic bomb. The silencing of his mother's voice can be analyzed using Spivak's concept of the subaltern. Kaneshiro's novel GO (2000) addresses Korea's division as a consequence of imperialism and the Cold War. Furthermore, it draws connections between African Americans in the United States and the Zainichi Korean minority, which can be interpreted as an allusion to Bhabha's concept of mimicry. In Kim Masumi's novel Nason no sora (The sky of Nason, 2001), a Zainichi Korean woman residing in the United States engages with both the Japanese expatriate community and Asian Americans, contending with essentialist concepts of ethnicity. I argue that in the selected novels both the literary negotiations of Zainichi Korean postcoloniality and its entanglement with global history as well as the references to other diasporas, namely, the Asian and African diasporas in the United States, contribute to a subversive reframing of some prevailing narratives concerning the Zainichi Korean minority in Japan.

Deception as Mimicry

AbstractWhat is the nature of deception? What does it take for an organism to deceive another one? In this article we address these questions by appealing to the concept of mimicry. More precisely, we argue that a fruitful perspective regards deception as an instance of mimicry rather than the reverse. Conceiving of deception as an instance of mimicry has a number of interesting consequences: It draws connections between different areas of research, vindicates a functional approach to deception by providing a satisfactory answer to some recent objections, and suggests some worries for game-theoretic approaches to deception.

Discrete interplay of gut microbiota L-tryptophan metabolites in host biology and disease.

The gut microbiota and the host maintain a conjoint relationship and together achieve optimal physiology via a multitude of interactive signalling cues. Dietary-derived L-tryptophan (L-trp) is enzymatically metabolized by the resident symbiotic gut microbiota to indole and various indole derivatives. Indole and indole metabolites secreted by the gut bacteria act locally in the intestinal cells as well as distally and modulate tissue-specific functions which are beneficial to the host. Functions attributed to these microbial indole metabolites in the host include regulation of intestinal permeability, immunity and mucosal roles, inflammation, and insulin sensitivity. On the other hand, dysregulation of gut microbiota L-trp metabolism compromises the optimal availability of indole and indole metabolites and can induce the onset of metabolic disorders, inflammation, liver steatosis, and decrease gut barrier integrity. Gut dysbiosis is regarded as one of the prime reasons for this deregulated microbial-derived indole metabolites. A number of indole metabolites from the gut bacteria have been identified recently displaying variable affinity towards xenobiotic nuclear receptors. Microbial metabolite mimicry concept can be used to design and develop novel indole-moiety-containing compounds with higher affinity towards the receptors and efficacy in preclinical studies. Such compounds may serve as therapeutic drugs in clinical trials in the future. In this article, I review L-trp metabolism in the host and gut microbiota and the various physiological functions, patho-physiologies associated with the microbial-released indole metabolites in the host, including the metabolite mimicry-based concept to develop tailored indole-containing novel experimental drugs.

CONFLICT OF IRISH CULTURAL IDENTITY IN BRIAN FRIEL’S TRANSLATION

Having been colonized by Britain, Ireland was in a very deprived condition for a very long period, especially for poor Catholic Irish. Britain had destroyed Irish civil rights by forcing them in a massive potato plantation merely to fulfill British people’s need for food, which caused the Irish in a great famine and poverty. Written by an Irish playwright in 1980, which is set in agricultural land, northern side of Ireland, Brian Friel’s Translations illustrates clearly the suffering of Irish villagers in 19th century. By applying Homi K. Bhabha’s post-colonialism theory, the dialogues from the play are analyzed to explain Irish cultural identity conflict. This play is analyzed by using a descriptive qualitative method. The result of analysis reflects the mimicry concept from Bhabha, in which it shows an ambition that Irish tradition must be vanished and replaced by British tradition. The dialogues in Brian Friel’s Translation describe that Irish language and tradition which tells a lot of Greek mythology must be replaced with the culture of Standard English language. The translations on Irish local place names into English language are forced for the sake of British imperialism importance in the Ordnance survey.

A postcolonial Pannenberg? Mimicry, the law, and the cross of love

AbstractThis paper employs the postcolonial concepts of mimicry and hybridity to interpret Wolfhart Pannenberg's understanding of the violence done to Jesus on the cross and the subversive reconciliatory love that it engenders. According to Pannenberg, although the man Jesus was crucified as blasphemer of the Jewish law, the resurrection vindicated Jesus so that the ones accusing Jesus were retroactively deemed to be the actual blasphemers. As a result, Jesus ended up dying not for his own alleged breaking of the law, but as an inclusive substitute for all blasphemers of God (through amour propre) deserving death. Thus, the resurrection confirmed Jesus’ divine identity and his earthly teaching that love supersedes and transforms the law. Applying the concept of mimicry to Pannenberg, on the cross the symbolic and semiotic are held together in tension for in mimicry the “not‐quite sameness” menaces the colonizer. The cross, ostensibly a symbolic sign of abjection, is mimicked by the suffering of Jesus and subverted through a practice of inclusive semiotic love which recapitulates sinful human life toward a life of transformed autonomy. Pannenberg displays a pseudo postcolonial understanding of subverting oppressive law into love. However, on account of his futurist ontology, the eschatological totality is underscored relative to formative experiences, leaving him vulnerable to postcolonial critiques of essentialism, which can reinscribe colonialism. I contend that Pannenberg employs a strategy of “strategic particularism” in which concepts such as mimicry and hybridity are helpful as hermeneutical tools but ultimately provisional and temporary relative to the whole.

No Othello: Disidentification in Season of Migration to the North

Abstract: In this piece, I consider how Tayeb Salih's novel Season of Migration to the North uses the image of Othello from Shakespeare's eponymous play to critique colonial desire and self-making. Appropriating José Esteban Muñoz's theory of disidentification and Homi Bhabha's concept of mimicry, I argue that Season of Migration to the North models in its depictions of Mustafa Sa'eed's sexual carnage and iconographic self-making a disidentificatory critique of Othello 's sense of racial tragedy.

The semiotic functioning of synthetic media

The interpretation of many texts in the everyday world is concerned with their truth value in relation to the reality around us. The recent publication experiments with computer-generated texts have shown that the distinction between true and false, or reality and fiction, is not always clear from the text itself. Essentially, in today’s media space, one may encounter texts, videos or images that deceive the reader by displaying nonsensical content or nonexistent events, while nevertheless appearing as genuine human-produced messages. This article outlines certain problems with artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content, and frames the issue as a problem of recognising its proper referential reality. Examples include generative texts, deepfakes and their functioning in contemporary culture. The article makes use of the concepts of mimicry and nonsense to reveal the elements and counterparts in the communicative processes involving generated media.

Mimicry and ambivalence in the concept of sovereignty:

In this article, we analyze the concept of sovereignty embodied in the four most-cited authors of the first generation of International Relations (IR) in Brazil, namely: Amado Cervo, Hélio Jaguaribe, José Flávio Sombra Saraiva and Maria Regina Soares de Lima. We evaluate the concept of sovereignty from the perspective of the Brazilian authors mentioned in contrapuntal to the view of this concept in the works of the American author Stephen Krasner. This study is developed in dialogue with the Global International Relations (Global IR) research agenda, which explores new perspectives in the IR discipline, encouraging its diversification. It is essential to explain that, to carry out this analysis, we adopted as a theoretical-methodological framework the concepts of mimicry and ambivalence, both theorized by Homi Bhabha as well as Edward Said’s contrapuntal reading. This way, we seek to establish bridges between different knowledge and discuss the Brazilian view of a fundamental IR concept: sovereignty. We verify that a national thought in IR approaching sovereignty is relatively different from what we observed in Krasner, whose work mostly represents the discipline’s mainstream. We conclude that this difference results from how national ideas of development and autonomy are articulated together with the concept of sovereignty.

Molecular Mimicry between SARS-CoV-2 and Human Endocrinocytes: A Prerequisite of Post-COVID-19 Endocrine Autoimmunity?

Molecular mimicry between human and microbial/viral/parasite peptides is common and has long been associated with the etiology of autoimmune disorders provoked by exogenous pathogens. A growing body of evidence accumulated in recent years suggests a strong correlation between SARS-CoV-2 infection and autoimmunity. The article analyzes the immunogenic potential of the peptides shared between the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein (S-protein) and antigens of human endocrinocytes involved in most common autoimmune endocrinopathies. A total of 14 pentapeptides shared by the SARS-CoV-2 S-protein, thyroid, pituitary, adrenal cortex autoantigens and beta-cells of the islets of Langerhans were identified, all of them belong to the immunoreactive epitopes of SARS-CoV-2. The discussion of the findings relates the results to the clinical correlates of COVID-19-associated autoimmune endocrinopathies. The most common of these illnesses is an autoimmune thyroid disease, so the majority of shared pentapeptides belong to the marker autoantigens of this disease. The most important in pathogenesis of severe COVID-19, according to the authors, may be autoimmunity against adrenals because their adequate response prevents excessive systemic action of the inflammatory mediators causing cytokine storm and hemodynamic shock. A critique of the antigenic mimicry concept is given with an assertion that peptide sharing is not a guarantee but only a prerequisite for provoking autoimmunity based on the molecular mimicry. The latter event occurs in carriers of certain HLA haplotypes and when a shared peptide is only used in antigen processing

Resistance or Complicity: An Analysis of Ondaatje's Running in the Family as a Postcolonial Text

According to Homi K. Bhahba, mimicry and hybridity are subversive strategies applied by colonized subjects to resist colonial domination that emerged as an ambivalent entity in its Janus faced mission of civilization and subjugation. This paper aims to explore the said postcolonial subversive strategies with reference to Micheal Ondaatje's memoir Running in the Family. Although Ondaatje's memoir is an emblematic diaspora's personal quest for his roots and identity in pre and post-colonial Sri Lanka, there is enough material in it in the form of characterization as well as direct insights which is open to analysis through a postcolonial lens. Using Bhahba’s concepts of mimicry,hybridity, and ambivalence as theoretical/analytical frame of reference, this article is an attempt to investigate how various fictive characters and their bearings in the selected memoir reflect these concepts:whether they are being used by the characters as resistance against the colonizers' hegemony or are merely being employed as strategies to survive and thrive under colonial rule.

Glasstress. A Transparent Border Between Mimicry and Mimesis

The article analyses the modern artistic process that began in the middle of the 20th century within the framework of the "craft + art" concept on the example of glassworks. The author covers two periods in the development of Murano glass. The first period is associated with the names of O.Kokoschka, P.Picasso, M.Chagall, M.Ernst, Le Corbusier, A.Calder, F.Leger, L.Fontana, H.Arp, G.Braque. At that time, an attempt to master the new plastic language of modern art space was undertaken by E.Costantini, the founder of one of the Venetian glass workshops. In the late 1940s, Costantini formulated the concept of joining a new artistic idea and technology, refined over the centuries, in Venetian glass. The new image of Murano glass of the late 20th - early 21st century is associated with the Berengo Studio, founded by Adriano Berengo in 1989. He practically adopted Costantini’s concept and invited outstanding contemporary artists: Ai Weiwei, Thomas Schütte, Jaume Plensa, the Kabakovs, Cesar, and others to work in the Murano workshops. The author analyses the “glass as an object of high art” concept on the example of the Glasstress. A Window to the Future exhibition, held at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The author believes that some artists formally exploit Venetian glass technologies and a high presentation platform, presenting works devoid of artistic significance. In this regard, the author draws on the philosophical concepts of mimicry and mimesis, believing that mimicry, in this case, is aimed at the space of high art. It reflects innovations in the artistic image and the search for a new creative method associated with the use of new material. In turn, the author believes that in the same context, a number of works can be described as mimesis - a kind of pretence, a certain result of imitation without artistic transformation.

Phage-Displayed Mimotopes of SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Targeted to Authentic and Alternative Cellular Receptors.

The evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 virus during the COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by the emergence of new heavily mutated viral variants with increased infectivity and/or resistance to detection by the human immune system. To respond to the urgent need for advanced methods and materials to empower a better understanding of the mechanisms of virus’s adaptation to human host cells and to the immuno-resistant human population, we suggested using recombinant filamentous bacteriophages, displaying on their surface foreign peptides termed “mimotopes”, which mimic the structure of viral receptor-binding sites on the viral spike protein and can serve as molecular probes in the evaluation of molecular mechanisms of virus infectivity. In opposition to spike-binding antibodies that are commonly used in studying the interaction of the ACE2 receptor with SARS-CoV-2 variants in vitro, phage spike mimotopes targeted to other cellular receptors would allow discovery of their role in viral infection in vivo using cell culture, tissue, organs, or the whole organism. Phage mimotopes of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike S1 protein have been developed using a combination of phage display and molecular mimicry concepts, termed here “phage mimicry”, supported by bioinformatics methods. The key elements of the phage mimicry concept include: (1) preparation of a collection of p8-type (landscape) phages, which interact with authentic active receptors of live human cells, presumably mimicking the binding interactions of human coronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and its variants; (2) discovery of closely related amino acid clusters with similar 3D structural motifs on the surface of natural ligands (FGF1 and NRP1), of the model receptor of interest FGFR and the S1 spike protein; and (3) an ELISA analysis of the interaction between candidate phage mimotopes with FGFR3 (a potential alternative receptor) in comparison with ACE2 (the authentic receptor).

To Mimic or not to Mimic: That is the Question": Representation of the Concept of Mimicry in The Inheritance of Loss and Under Copenhagen Sky: A Comparative Study

To Mimic or not to Mimic: That is the Question": Representation of the Concept of Mimicry in The Inheritance of Loss and Under Copenhagen Sky: A Comparative Study

Histological Evaluation of Long-Term Collagen Type I Culture.

Histological approach to long-term culture on collagen type I permits the evaluation of vasculogenic mimicry morphological features and the identification of endothelial-like cell-specific antigens. Here, we show the preparation of collagen type I solution, the embedding and the sections cutting of D17 osteosarcoma cells long-term culture, and then the hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining to identify endothelial-like structure. Moreover, we provide the protocols for periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) staining to evidence glycoproteins and CD31 immunohistochemistry to exclude the presence of this endothelial marker, as per definition by vasculogenic mimicry concept. This method allows to consider long-term culture as tissue, promoting the deeper study of vascular-like structures in vitro.

모방과 창조, 주체와 타자 사이에서: 알렉세이 K. 톨스토이의 『부르달락 가족』을 중심으로

This paper analyzes Aleksei K. Tolstoy’s short story “The Family of a Vourdalak” as an example of hybridity, using the framework of Homi Bhabha’s concept of mimicry and Alexander Etkind’s internal colonization. Tolstoy’s vampire story, written in French and narrated by a French narrator, imitates and uses literary forms and devices popular in contemporary Western Europe. Yet in creating an “almost the same, but not quite same” narrative in a new cultural, historical context, the story reappropriates and recreates the imported narratives, including the Slavic vampiric image appropriated by Western literatures. In this way, the story resists the inferiority complex toward the West. But at the same time, Etkind’s internal colonization reveals one more layer of interpretation of this text as a gap between the “shaved man” and people[narod]. Therefore, the text reveals the ambivalent position of the Russian intelligentsia of the nineteenth century as the colonized and the colonizer, as the subject and the other.

‘Koreans are the Israelis of the East’: a postcolonial reading of cultural similarities in cross-cultural management

ABSTRACT This paper aims to problematize cross-cultural management (CCM) discourse that naturalizes and depoliticizes similarities as a power-neutral or even power-neutralizing mechanism for creating a positive sense of familiarity, closeness, trust, and intimacy between partners. Employing a postcolonial perspective, the paper deals with the ambiguity and partiality embedded in similarity through Homi Bhabha’s theoretical concept of mimicry – when similarities conceal and therefore tacitly reproduce and reinforce cultural differences, thus enhancing power asymmetries. Through the systematic content analysis of 151 accounts of similarity in Israel-Korean business alliances – asking who is similar to whom (direction), to what extent (degree), and under what circumstances (context) – this paper reveals similarities construction as a sophisticated othering. Rather than being an effective tool for distance management, similarities-as-mimicry, imposed or desired, determine the hierarchical relations between the compared parties through symbolic projection of being or becoming similar from a superior model to its imitation.