During her lecture, best-selling Chinese American fantasy author and translator Rebecca Kuang addressed the themes of mimicry, a practice where colonizers force colonies to take up the colonizer’s language, and the ambivalence of colonial discourse. “There’s something very sad about this mimicry … but it can also be an insurgent act,” she said. “Mimicry radically revalues the priority of race, writing and history. It deauthorizes the colonizer.”
Seoeun Choi
Seoeun Choi is a staff writer in Arts & Culture and University News. She is a junior from Frankfurt, Germany studying comparative literature (English, German, Korean) and history.
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