Cultural Mimicry and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Nuruddin Farah’s My Father, The English Man, and I

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10.2991/978-2-38476-503-4_26How to use a DOI?

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cultural mimicry; anti-colonial resistance; the colonizer; the colonized

Abstract

This paper discusses cultural mimicry and anti-colonial resistance in Nuruddin Farah’s My Father, The English Man, And I. This paper is aimed at analyzing the impacts of British colonization in Africa such as cultural mimicry and anti-colonial resistance. This paper uses postcolonial approach in literature by applying Homi K Bhabha’s theory and applying library research as method of data collection. The results of this research indicate that colonization of the British country towards the Somali native people leads to the complexity of various effects of cultural mimicry and anti-colonial resistance. The interaction between the colonizer and the colonized causes them to influence each other culturally. Most of the colonized people tend to idolize and internalize the colonizer’s culture by adopting cultural mimicry, such as mimicry in English language, mimicry in food taste, and mimicry in family life. Meanwhile, the other native people, strongly defending the loving homeland, commit anti-colonial resistances against the white colonial government, such as the father’s son, the main character I’s mother, and the clan elders. Those two impacts of colonialism are closely related to how local people interact with colonial influences and how the colonized people respond the emerging colonial dominance.

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