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Coined by Indian critical theorist Homi K. Bhabha in 1984 in his article Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse by back-formation from mimic men.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
mimic man
Today it means: 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 Full definition →